diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a7b767c..be16672 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ The LFS host is an LFS 11.3 system with similar modifications. As of present, these scripts are not complete and probably broken. + The Madness ----------- @@ -42,3 +43,32 @@ community, similar to how ‘Fedora Extras’ supplemented Red Hat Linux back in day. Is that too much to ask? + + +The Plan +-------- + +These scripts will be used to build a bootable USB thumb drive that will then +be used to run the scripts again to rebuild itself on the hard disk. The thumb +drive then becomes my emergency boot device. + +Once installed on the hard drive, BLFS packages will be added until I have a +basic usable system bootstrapped with the RPM package manager. + +At that point, packages will be added until I am able to run the XFCE desktop +environment. Long-term goal personally is MATE but MATE will be done as a +separate package repository. Hopefully KDE and GNOME will also be done as +separate package repositories as well. + +Users who are happy with XFCE will not need a separate package repository for +their desktop environment. + +Back on topic, once XFCE is properly packaged and working, then the scripts +used to build the bootable USB thumb drive will be used to build an installer +thumb drive with a crude basic installer to create a system using RPM packages. + +That will be the first release of ‘Yellow-Jacket GNU/Linux’ and it is probable +that by the time that happens, the LTS kernel will have changed and quite +likely other core components like GCC and GlibC and Python. + +