>If I remember correctly there was someone who was writing 
>instructions
>for BLFS book on compiling and getting to work TDE on LFS. I 
>remember
>using those instructions while writing PKGBUILDs for arch, since 
>those
>instructions were nicely detailed. I wanted to look at them, now 
>that
>I'm trying to compile TDE on my Gentoo installation.
>
>But now they have vanished and I can't find them anywhere.
>
>Any hopes on mirrors or direct contact with the person that was
>writing them?

This is the only result I found:

http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Sandbox/TlfsIntroduction

Darrell