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[Jeremy Huntwork]

Greg Schafer wrote:
> Ughh, gotta say the above is horrid IMHO. I realize you're trying to get
> rid of the specs patch.. but at the expense of your target audience? This
> is a critical part of the build method and you've just *massively*
> increased the chances of screwups IMNSHO.

Which is it? Are you humble or not so humble? ;)

Thanks for the opinion, but I completely disagree.

I'm not so worried about screwups. There is a support list and plenty of 
ways to find help in the LFS community. In fact, the reason that this 
change was introduced was as a consideration to the target audience. 
Unlike DIY, the major goal of LFS is to teach. I'd prefer that the 
changes be in the 'open' so to speak than hidden away in a patch which 
is so easy to apply and not think about.

These sets of commands also offer an opportunity to get more familiar 
with find and cp. And everything is explained in the text. Yes it is 
critical, but so is so much of what it done before final Glibc. 
"Screwups" can and do happen along the way all the time. With the 
community to help support and automated build methods to keep 
experienced users from making typos, I don't think its a big issue.

In fact, I especially don't like patches that hide changes specific to 
the build method. Where it's changes from upstream that are more closely 
connected to actual programming, it makes much more sense to me to leave 
as patches. But I don't like obscuring things that *we* adjust so we can 
build the system in the way we do.

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JH