Changeset ace4d89 for BOOK/appendices/rationale

Timestamp:

Jan 14, 2014, 8:22:52 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

Chris Staub <chris@…>

Branches:

clfs-3.0.0-systemd, clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, master, systemd, sysvinit

Children:

3fb13ab

Parents:

09cdde6

Message:

Updates to rationale page

File:

• BOOK/appendices/rationale/common.xml (modified) (10 diffs)

BOOK/appendices/rationale/common.xml

@@ -20 +20 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>ACL</para>
+      <para>The ACL package allows usage and setting of POSIX Access Control
+      Lists. It can be used by several other packages in CLFS, such as Coreutils
+      and systemd.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Attr</para>
+      <para>Attr allows setting and viewing extended attributes of filesystem
+      objects. It is required by systemd..</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>Autoconf</para>
       <para>The Autoconf package contains programs for producing shell scripts
@@ -74 +87 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>Check</para>
-      <para>This package contains a test harness for other programs.</para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>CLooG-ISL</para>
+      <para>This package contains a test harness for other programs. It is
+      used for some packages' testsuites.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>CLooG</para>
       <para>This package is used by GCC.</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -86 +100 @@
       <para>This package contains many basic command-line file-management
       tools, required for installation of every package in CLFS.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>D-Bus</para>
+      <para>D-Bus is a message bus system, which allows applications to
+      communicate to each other. It is required by systemd.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -115 +135 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>Eudev</para>
+      <para>This is a package that allows for dynamic creation of device nodes.
+      It is a fork of Udev, which is now part of systemd. It is still
+      used for the "Boot" method in the temp-system, as systemd is not needed
+      there.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>Expect</para>
       <para>This package is needed for the testsuites for several packages.</para>
@@ -167 +195 @@
       <para>GMP</para>
       <para>This package is required by GCC.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Gperf</para>
+      <para>This package is required by systemd.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -195 +228 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>Intltool</para>
+      <para>This package is required by systemd.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>IProute2</para>
       <para>This package contains programs for administering network interfaces.</para>
@@ -225 +263 @@
       <para>A program that lets you view text files one page at a time.
       Used by Man for displaying manpages.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Libcap</para>
+      <para>This package is required by systemd.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -329 +372 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>Sysvinit</para>
-      <para>Sysvinit is the init daemon that the clfs-bootscripts were written
-      to work with.</para>
+      <para>systemd</para>
+      <para>Systemd provides the init daemon for the system, as well as Udev, 
+      which dynamically creates device nodes.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -350 +393 @@
       converting info pages. It is used in the installation procedures
       of many CLFS packages.</para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>Eudev</para>
-      <para>The Eudev package contains programs for dynamic creation of device
-      nodes.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -373 +410 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>XML::Parser</para>
+      <para>This Perl module is required by Intltool.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>XZ-Utils</para>
       <para>Useful for compressing files to reduce size. Also needed to