r8518 - in trunk/BOOK: . chapter01 prologue

[Bruce Dubbs]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Sukucorp Sukucorp <sukucorp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >  >  Randy echoed my thoughts in a much better manner. We should not check
>>  >  >  for something if the result of the check does not make any difference
>>  >  >  in the build.
>>  >
>>  >  Agreed, and I don't think we're doing that right now.
>>  >
>>
>>  As of today[1], we are. That is what started this thread.
>>
>>  [1] http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-book/2008-April/022060.html
> 
> Right...I'm following this conversation :)
> 
> This commit should probably be reverted, IMO.

I'm not sure why.  The changes I added only say to change some (three) symbolic 
links or add them if they don't already exist.   These changes to links can't 
really hurt and it establishes a better base configuration from which to build 
LFS.

The unsaid implication here is that if a user doesn't know how to change a 
symbolic link, then they are not yet ready for LFS.

Resetting the links by a user is just as trivial as making them.  The only real 
change I can see being made on the vast majority of systems that need any change 
at all is to change /bin/sh to point to bash.

   -- Bruce