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authorAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-01-12 23:23:50 +0000
committerAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-01-12 23:23:50 +0000
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Moving stuff from appendix A to chapter 6.
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@@ -22,17 +22,10 @@ to keep them separate from the files installed in the next chapter.
Since the packages compiled here are merely temporary, we don't want
them to pollute the soon-to-be LFS system.</para>
-<para>The key to learning what makes a Linux system work is to know
-what each package is used for and why the user or the system needs it.
-For this purpose a short summary of the content of each package is given
-before the actual installation instructions. For a short description of
-each program in a package, please refer to the corresponding section in
-<xref linkend="appendixa"/>.</para>
-
-<para>The build instructions assume that you are using the bash shell. There
-is also a general expectation that you have already unpacked the sources for a
-package and have performed a <userinput>cd</userinput> into the unpacked source
-directory before issuing the build commands.</para>
+<para>The build instructions assume that you are using the
+<userinput>bash</userinput> shell. It is also expected that you have already
+unpacked the sources and performed a <userinput>cd</userinput> into the source
+directory of a package before issuing its build commands.</para>
<para>Several of the packages are patched before compilation, but only when
the patch is needed to circumvent a problem. Often the patch is needed in