LiveCD or No LiveCD?

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Jeremy Huntwork wrote:

> The LiveCD exists as standing proof that the LFS book is 
> sound and produces a working system.

Here I disagree. Because of numerous deviations and wagons of extras, it proves 
nothing. Here is a counterexample: 
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2007-September/033586.html 
. In this case, the network card worked only because the LiveCD included 
pcmcia-utils. So the choice is, in fact, between deviations/extras and a 
non-working CD for a non-negligible amount of users. I think this also has 
something to do with the fundamental conflict between LFS not intending to be a 
distro, and the LiveCD being a binary distro in some sense.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov