xguest in the live cd

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 09:40 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 10 2009, Matthias Clasen said:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 06:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > It won't be that useful as a live cd as such but since we are 
> > > recommending the desktop live cd as the primary point of entry for new 
> > > users at http://get.fedoraproject.org/, it would be quite useful for 
> > > desktop users once people use the live cd to install them to their hard 
> > > disk, I think.
> > 
> > Fair enough. I'm sure people will bitch about this poking unasked wholes
> > in their system security. 
> > 
> > What do others think ?
> 
> I think making xguest more accessible is a Good Thing (tm) and that
> having it in the live images/installed by default is a part of that.
> But the other part is perhaps the "how do I make it easy to turn off" --
> right now, that involves removing the package afaik.  Having it be an
> easy "turn off the account in system-config-users[1]" would probably
> make it even more awesome.
> 
> That said, let's put it in the beta and see what more people think :-)
> Worst case is we get some xguest testing with the beta (which isn't bad
> either)

Can you add a  +xguest  to fedora-livecd-desktop.ks ? For some reason I
seem to have lost my git fu there...