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| author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2013-02-12 22:08:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2013-02-12 22:08:32 +0000 |
| commit | c1ec480db62b17bfab76df9e12319d6730ac771d (patch) | |
| tree | d2623c22084c8c5d9efe14dc7ddb5f52ce74338f /prologue | |
| parent | 2ca8941c1fd5739874e4c29bd5ad176b21587a3d (diff) | |
Add rationale for Libpipeline, and make some other minor cosmetic changes.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10127 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'prologue')
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/why.xml | 42 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml index f70dbfba9..ba51e794b 100644 --- a/prologue/why.xml +++ b/prologue/why.xml @@ -100,6 +100,14 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>E2fsprogs</para> + + <para>This package contains the utilities for handling the ext2, ext3 + and ext4 file systems. These are the most common and thoroughly + tested file systems that Linux supports.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Expect</para> <para>This package contains a program for carrying out scripted @@ -109,14 +117,6 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>E2fsprogs</para> - - <para>This package contains the utilities for handling the ext2, ext3 - and ext4 file systems. These are the most common and thoroughly - tested file systems that Linux supports.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> <para>File</para> <para>This package contains a utility for determining the type of a @@ -258,6 +258,14 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>Libpipeline</para> + + <para>The Libpipeline package contains a library for manipulating + pipelines of subprocesses in a flexible and convenient way. It is + required by the Man-DB package.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Libtool</para> <para>This package contains the GNU generic library support @@ -334,16 +342,7 @@ by the <application>diff</application> program. It is needed by the build procedure for several LFS packages.</para> </listitem> -<!-- - <listitem> - <para>PCRE</para> - <para>This package provides a library that can be used to implement - regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics - as Perl 5. It is a mandatory dependency of Glib, and can also be used - by Grep.</para> - </listitem> ---> <listitem> <para>Perl</para> @@ -360,14 +359,7 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>Popt</para> - - <para>This package is a library used by some programs to parse - command line inputs.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Procps</para> + <para>Procps-NG</para> <para>This package contains programs for monitoring processes. These programs are useful for system administration, and are also used by |