Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov >> For a regular distro, I would agree. For a third-party LiveCD, I disagree. > > I still don't think instructions should be special for this situation. > If you chose a host that doesn't provide the necessary development > environment and doesn't provide the means to acquire the necessary > environment, then that probably wasn't the best choice. Instead, I'd > rather that the hostreqs page said "If you're host doesn't contain the > necessary requirements and doesn't provide a means to acquire them, > see the instructions in Ch. 6 as a guide to building them."
Maybe it is a good idea. But my point is that there are almost no LiveCDs other than (no longer existing) LFS LiveCD that serve as a good starting point (by meeting the host requirements). Some people think it is a problem with the LiveCD-based hosts. Other people think that it is a problem with our requirements. Both viewpoints are valid, but as long as LFS mentions the possibility to build from _a_ LiveCD, it has to have host requirements compatible with LiveCDs. Or maybe the whole paragraph about using a LiveCD should be dropped from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter01/how.html -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
