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diff --git a/chapter06/perl.xml b/chapter06/perl.xml index 24f99adf0..645016932 100644 --- a/chapter06/perl.xml +++ b/chapter06/perl.xml @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ <varlistentry> <term><parameter>-Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term> <listitem> - <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command> - invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para> + <para>This ensures that <userinput>less</userinput> is used instead + of <userinput>more</userinput>.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml index 96f34b68d..84a40feef 100644 --- a/prologue/why.xml +++ b/prologue/why.xml @@ -21,6 +21,23 @@ <itemizedlist> <listitem> + <para>Acl</para> + + <para>This package contains utilities to administer Access + Control Lists, which are used to define more fine-grained + discretionary access rights for files and directories. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Attr</para> + + <para>This package contains programs for administering + extended attributes on filesystem objects. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Autoconf</para> <para>This package contains programs for producing shell scripts that @@ -92,6 +109,14 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>D-Bus</para> + + <para>This package contains programs to implement a message bus system, + which a simple way for applications to talk to one another. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>DejaGNU</para> <para>This package contains a framework for testing other programs. @@ -115,6 +140,14 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>Expat</para> + + <para>This package contains programs for parsing XML. It is + required for systemd. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Expect</para> <para>This package contains a program for carrying out scripted @@ -191,6 +224,14 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>Gperf</para> + + <para>This package a program that generates a perfect hash function + from a key set. It is required for systemd. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Grep</para> <para>This package contains programs for searching through files. These @@ -235,6 +276,13 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>Intltool</para> + + <para>This package contains tools for extracting translatable + strings from source files.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>IProute2</para> <para>This package contains programs for basic and advanced IPv4 and @@ -265,6 +313,14 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>Libcap</para> + + <para>This package implements the user-space interfaces to + the POSIX 1003.1e capabilities available in Linux kernels. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Libpipeline</para> <para>The Libpipeline package contains a library for manipulating @@ -412,6 +468,16 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>Systemd</para> + + <para>This package provides and <application>init</application> program + and several additional boot and system control capabilites as an + alternative to Sysvinit. It is used by many commercial distributions. + In LFS it is installed side-by-side with Sysvinit to provide the user with + alternative boot systems for comparison.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Sysvinit</para> <para>This package provides the <application>init</application> @@ -468,6 +534,12 @@ </listitem> <listitem> + <para>XML::Parser</para> + + <para>This package is a Perl module that interfaces with Expat.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>XZ Utils</para> <para>This package contains programs for compressing and decompressing |