Making the Live CD slicker

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:19 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 22:34 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > What you mentioned earlier (but forgot to add to this email,
> > apparently): the live cd contains a number of system-config utilities
> > that we would rather not see in the menus of a polished desktop spin,
> > such as system-config-rootpassword. Most of them are dragged in by
> > anaconda/firstboot.
> 
> How do you propose that anaconda/firstboot have the functionality
> without having to bring their own copy of tools in?  

By using conditional dependencies. E.g. anaconda itself shouldn't pull
in system-config-keyboard on the live CD (the keyboard is assumed to
already be configured through gdm). However, for non-live-cd anaconda
use you probably want to pull it in and use it. That's fine.

In a similar fashion, anaconda/firstboot shouldn't automatically pull in
system-config-rootpassword. Because that's not needed for Live CD's that
are configured to not have a root password at all (Ubuntu, Mac OS X
style).

Does it make more sense now?

      David