The value of older version(s) of LFS - was [Re: LFS meets goals AND constraints?]

Richard Owlett wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:26:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>
>>> You put a "sanity filter" on my question <GRIN>. If physical
>>> Live-CD's are
>>> not available, I do specifically want an image of one.
>>> Apparently Oregon
>>> State University has it available at
>>> http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2145.iso
>>> .
>>>
>> Missed that item when I was skimming the thread.  Please, do
>> not use
>> it - it is too old to build recent versions of LFS.
>
> *ROFL* <giggle, giggle>
> Where did I even suggest being "recent" was relevant ;/
> But it will likely make you comfortable to know that while at the
> library downloading the ISO of the 6.3 LiveCD, I also downloaded
> the tar of 7.7 .
>
>> [*SNIP*]
>>
>> And just in case it isn't clear - for LFS we recommend that you
>> build a new system when the time comes to upgrade.
>
> I'm interested in lfs solely as a personally instructive tool.
>

While reading the LFS Book version 6.1, I found a reference to 
“From Power Up To Bash Prompt”. Some meandering through The 
Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org] led me to current URLs for:

"From Power Up To Bash Prompt"
http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~okeefe/p2b/power2bash/power2bash.html

and

"How To Build a Minimal Linux System from Source Code"
http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~okeefe/p2b/buildMin/buildMin.html

The later answers many of *MY* questions which had led me to 
investigate LFS.

My eventual goal would be a Debian Derivative that would be close 
to that with
"apt-get --no-install-recommends ...". Yes, no compilers nor 
assemblers etc ;}



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