Introduction to a new SIG for creation of Live DVD

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Sep 14 18:08:47 UTC 2009


Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said: 
> > New:
> > - user downloads DVD live iso
> > - user partitions, has to include space for all other software on DVD (!)
> > - user installs
> > - user reboots
> > - user can pick from arbitary set of software to add on
> > - additional software can be selected from network
> 
> Because in the future we will we have a better UI than the current
> Add/Remove applications for installing desktop software at least, and
> this way Anaconda doesn't need to maintain a package selection UI.

We've been describing that future for a while. In the meantime, having
to actually install uninstalled versions of random software seems
inefficient.

Bill




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