Hi all,

Greetings from my brandnew and shiny BLFS-11.1 (with some newer packages)
I'm writing this from firefox, currently running in some lxde.

My first impressions: Kernel boot-times have greatly improved; also the time to start xorg. If the timestamps printed in dmesg are correct, this thing (linux-5.16.18) needs less than 1 second from boot to start /sbin/init. (on some 5 year old i3 machine)

On that machine i had approximately a BLFS-8.3 before (with an uptime of almost 2 years, so the kernel boot times were not really an issue before ;-) ). Hope the 11.1 will be as rock solid as 8.3.

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Nasty things i noticed:
* still the need for python2 for some modules needed for LXDE.
* crappy rustc sneaks in even more: of course i want to use my printer on BLFS, so i need:
cups, which depends on colord
colord, which depends on polkit
polkit, which depends on some firefox sources as javascript machine, which now also needs rustc.
Heck! didn't polkit just recently have some issues with security?
Then why are there needed couples of crappy languages to get polkit up and running? Can't this be done with massive less LoC? In less crappy languages?
Why not add Python2 and 3 and also some Perl into polkit? Why not also Postscript, which is also a nice language (at least, if you like the old Hewlett-Packard pocketcalculators) and may bloat polkit even more...
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Cheers,
WK

rustc agree an annoying piece of rubbish for lazy programmers, I use a binary install and stash it out of the way in /opt.

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I haven't done LFS, but I do use CRUX, which is also a build from sources distro, and this issue is very evident here also. The modern trend of app and especially library developers using as many different languages as possible in their creations is just insane.

I miss the days when all you needed to build something was make, a C compiler, and 20 minutes to go put the kettle on.

I've complained about this a few times but I only get flack and people telling me that if I don't like LFS, I shouldn't use it. My quarrel isn't with LFS, which I have always admired. It's with modern software and its complex build requirements.

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Moin,

Yep. exactly the same here. If i'd use a "usual" distro, i just would not know, what's behind. But the situation about the rising build requirements would still stay the same...

Cheers,
WK