Changeset 5b62b8d for prologue

Timestamp:

06/05/2011 05:25:03 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

0d0a212

Parents:

93e5153

Message:

Add rationale for Glib and PCRE. Fixes #2885.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9561 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• prologue/why.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

prologue/why.xml

@@ -164 +164 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>Glib</para>
+
+        <para>This package contains low-level core library functions for things
+        such as event loops and threading.  It is used by one other LFS package,
+        Pkg-config.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>Glibc</para>
 
@@ -330 +338 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>PCRE</para>
+
+        <para>This package is provides a library that can be used to implement
+        regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics
+        as Perl 5.  It is a mandatory dependency of Glib, and can also be used
+        by Grep.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>Perl</para>