The complication I am referring to is the fact that you can build on some hosts but not on others, there was a table at one point that listed the distros that had been tested to just such an effect. If someone was using a distro that was unable to be used as a host system then the user would have 3 choices, give up, install another distro, use the livecd. I expect this situation to have arisen for more than a few people. Unfortunately it's not always as simple as having package X, X and X.
If someone has never built a package from source before, then surely they should not attempt lfs until they have done so. Were I to meet someone lacking such a skill I would tell them to try again later when they have such skills. I understand about being able to do lfs from anywhere and that the livecd has somewhat eclipsed that, but I feel that the livecd is being solely blamed for it when some of us simply prefer to use the livecd. If people want to test distros as a suitable host and then make a table of the results for everyone else, then by all means do so. I doubt I would be of much help with the livecd since I prefer to use 6.1-3, however if the interest is lacking then my suggestion would be to make a sourceless livecd that won't need to be updated so frequently. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
