[Fedora-livecd-list] RFC- proposal for livecd filesystem layout changes

[Rahul Sundaram]

Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 01:25 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
>>> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>>>
>>>> A downside, is that an F7 version of livecd-iso-to-disk would not 
>>>> work with an F8 livecd.  I think its worth it, but I admit it is a 
>>>> downside.
>>> Though OTOH, an f7-updates version of livecd-tools mitigates this.
>>
>> Yeah, I suspect we would need to do this.  Which gets a little tricky
>> with some of the config changes unless I can twist clumens's arm into
>> putting out a pykickstart update as well :-/
> 
> How about we split livecd-iso-to-disk into its own package, specifically 
> because of the use-case scenario of a user just wanting to put their 
> newly downloaded f8-livecd on usb, without any need or interest in 
> full-blown livecd-creation?
> 
> And install it by default, perhaps even in the minimal base spin config?

This sounds like a good idea especially if we provide a menu option to 
make this feature more visible to users and reviewers who don't read the 
release notes which is unfortunately quite a lot.

Rahul