[Fedora-livecd-list] mandatory syslinux on live cd causes perl dependency

[James Heather]

I haven't tried this, but how about:

%post
yum -C -y remove perl
%end

Make sure you know what you're doing... by which I mean that this would
be a dangerous game to play if you weren't certain that syslinux was the
only thing using perl!

As I recall, by the time %post executes, the initrd has already been
created (see previous posts passim.). If syslinux data files are being
used in that stage, then removing them in %post shouldn't screw things
up. If they're being used after the squashfs image gets created, you
might be in trouble.

Suck it and see...

James

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 20:03 +0000, Mads Kiilerich wrote:

> python-imgcreate adds syslinux to the list of installed packages. AFAICS 
> that is because it uses data files from syslinux in the installed root 
> to populate isolinux. It do not execute any syslinux files in the 
> installed root.
> 
> The problem is that syslinux depends on perl. The unused syslinux on the 
> livecd is the only reason my live cd has perl, and it thus costs 30+ Mb.
> 
> How do you think that could be solved / worked around?
> 
> Could python-imgcreate be changed to use files from the build system if 
> they can't be found in the installed root?
> 
> Or could syslinux be split into a executable package depending on perl 
> and a /usr/share/syslinux package?
> 
> /Mads
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