Steve Prior wrote: > I understand Alexanders frustration in the kind of questions that > get asked on this list and how people are tempted to try to cheat > the book with the LiveCD. However I think that the LiveCD > project is quite valuable for the LFS project when used properly - it > has been my favorite way to install LFS on the last few machines > I've built and I have in fact used it as a rescue CD. > > I think the problem is not so much the LiveCD distribution itself, > but this mailing list which gets misused for end user support.
Correct. > I therefore propose that the livecd mailing list be made closed and > invitation only. That way people would be forced to use the user list > unless they are contributing directly to the LiveCD development effort. > Some kind of mechanism could be worked out for someone to request to > be invited. Not sure. There were some critical bug reports about packages that I don't use (e.g. xfsprogs miscompilation that resulted from disabling static libraries globally). If we close the list, the CD will become just a junkpile of untested binaries (but I am afraid that it _is_ such a junkpile now - too many packages per one maintainer). > > If this cuts down the frustration of LiveCD development and keeps > future development happening I think it would be well worth it. Your intentions are all good, but there is one more failure: the readers sometimes don't understand that the Official LFS LiveCD is not needed in order to install LFS onto a blank machine. Moreover, (sorry, Steve) the presence of this CD results in less-than-optimal testing of buildability of LFS from other hosts. This is solvable within the book itself, but my previous attempt to negotiate such solution failed, see http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1735 -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
