Talk:Linux from Scratch

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I would suggest to have, as the first paragraph, a subsection about history, e. g. when the project was started, what happened during that time.

I suggest to put this close to the top, but not the very top; the very top should be an introduction to the article.

By having a subsection about the project history, people can quickly see which version was released when, and whether the project is active or not. For example the addition of systemd into LFS/BLFS posed a large change - it should be mentioned in which year this has happened as well. Wikipedia should act like a good archive for visitors. 80.110.94.194 (talk) 07:59, 20 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

just update the package based on https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/package-choices.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linux_from_Scratch&oldid=1310321797

note

these package dont exit on lfs page

• elfutils
• eudev
• LFS-Bootscripts
• python documentation
• tzdata

python 3, should this link to Python (programming language) or History of Python#Version 3

udev, i assume this is Udev Configuration Tarball.

udev entry on lfs page is also not sorted correctly. It appear between sysvinit and tar instead of textinfo and util-linux Lokiretro (talk) 23:19, 8 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

second part https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linux_from_Scratch&oldid=1310395584

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/wget-list

not exist anymore

• Bash Documentation 3.2
• Bin86 (x86_64 non-multilib only)
• CLFS-Bootscripts 1.0pre10
• Elftoaout 2.3 (Sparc and Sparc64 only)
• Hfsutils 3.2.6 (PowerPC and PowerPC64 only)
• LILO 22.8 (x86_64 non-multilib only)
• LILO 22.8 (x86_64 non-multilib only)
• Man 1.6e
• Mktemp 1.5
• Module-Init-Tools 3.4
• Parted 1.8.8 (PowerPC and PowerPC64 only)
• PowerPC Utils 1.1.3 (PowerPC and PowerPC64 only)
• Silo 1.4.13 (Sparc and Sparc64 only)
• Tree 1.5.1.1
• Udev 124
• Vim 7.1 language files (optional)

other thing

• small case or mixed case? there is no clear rule how to write this
• should gmp link to GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library? what about mpc section?

Lokiretro (talk) 10:08, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply