On 02/25/2010 04:50 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com) said:
> [snipped]
>>
>> Given the present situation:
>>
>> 1. Has any Spin found the present situation unduly restrictive?
>> 1. If so, how specifically?
>
> A spin is defined as installable Live-CD. This means it must ship
> anaconda and firstboot. firstboot requires system-config-keyboard
> requires metacity requires GConf2 and tons of other GNOME stuff. There
> are other dependency chains as well (e.g. notification-daemon), but this
> is the worst one.
I'm not sure what your objection is here. Are you objecting to the
fact that it must be a LiveCD, the fact that the LiveCD installer
uses anaconda/firstboot, or the dependencies of anaconda/firstboot?
Or maybe just the requirement that the LiveCD must be installable?
-- Jeroen