Changeset a139c25

Timestamp:

04/18/2014 05:39:38 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

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, 7.10, 7.10-rc1, 7.6, 7.6-rc1, 7.7, 7.7-rc1, 7.8, 7.8-rc1, 7.9, 7.9-rc1, 7.9-rc2, 8.0, 8.0-rc1, 8.1, 8.1-rc1, 8.1-rc2, 8.2, 8.2-rc1, 8.3, 8.3-rc1, 8.3-rc2, 8.4, 8.4-rc1, 9.0, 9.0-rc1, 9.1, 9.1-rc1, BOOK.old, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, cross-chap5, hybrid, ml-11.0, multilib, nosym, old-trunk, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/git-transition, xry111/glibc-2.34, xry111/glibc-2.37, xry111/kcfg-revise, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/pip3, xry111/queue-11.3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/tester-nohack, xry111/usr-move

Children:

cc2eeb1

Parents:

70e3330

Message:

Update rationale for programs needed by systemd.
Reword an explanation for specifying less for the perl pager.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10537 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter06/perl.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• prologue/why.xml (modified) (8 diffs)

chapter06/perl.xml

@@ -84 +84 @@
         <term><parameter>-Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
-          invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para>
+          <para>This ensures that <userinput>less</userinput> is used instead 
+          of <userinput>more</userinput>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

prologue/why.xml

@@ -22 +22 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>Acl</para>
+
+        <para>This package contains utilities to administer Access 
+        Control Lists, which are used to define more fine-grained 
+        discretionary access rights for files and directories. 
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Attr</para>
+
+        <para>This package contains programs for administering  
+        extended attributes on filesystem objects. 
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>Autoconf</para>
 
@@ -93 +110 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>D-Bus</para>
+
+        <para>This package contains programs to implement a message bus system, 
+        which a simple way for applications to talk to one another.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>DejaGNU</para>
 
@@ -113 +138 @@
         and ext4 file systems.  These are the most common and thoroughly
         tested file systems that Linux supports.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Expat</para>
+
+        <para>This package contains programs for parsing XML.  It is
+        required for systemd.
+        </para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -192 +225 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>Gperf</para>
+
+        <para>This package a program that generates a perfect hash function 
+        from a key set.  It is required for systemd.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>Grep</para>
 
@@ -236 +277 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>Intltool</para>
+
+        <para>This package contains tools for extracting translatable 
+        strings from source files.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>IProute2</para>
 
@@ -263 +311 @@
         allows scrolling up or down when viewing a file. It is also used by
         Man-DB for viewing manpages.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Libcap</para>
+
+        <para>This package implements the user-space interfaces to 
+        the POSIX 1003.1e capabilities available in Linux kernels. 
+        </para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -413 +469 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>Systemd</para>
+
+        <para>This package provides and <application>init</application> program
+        and several additional boot and system control capabilites as an
+        alternative to Sysvinit.  It is used by many commercial distributions.
+        In LFS it is installed side-by-side with Sysvinit to provide the user with
+        alternative boot systems for comparison.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>Sysvinit</para>
 
@@ -469 +535 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>XML::Parser</para>
+
+        <para>This package is a Perl module that interfaces with Expat.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>XZ Utils</para>