Finally getting around to building live CDs with Catalyst

I'm finally getting around to building my live CDs! Chris will probably
remember how long it's been that I've wanted to do this, but *I've*
forgotten. :)

In any event, everything appears to be working, although I did have a
question:

At one point in the build from "livecd stage1", it complained that "gli"
was masked. I put a "package.unmask" and a "package.keywords" in

/var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/default/livecd-stage1-i686-rameau-0.1/etc/portage/

and it went forward. Was that the right thing to do and the right way to
do it? Also, if I want a live CD *without* the installer, how would I
set that up?

P.S.: If you want to know what "rameau" is all about, you can find some
preliminary docs at

http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/Rameau/Rameau.pdf?root=cougar&view=co