[Fedora-spins] Board SWG questions for Spins Owners
Jeroen van Meeuwen
kanarip at kanarip.com
Thu Feb 25 19:25:21 UTC 2010
On 02/25/2010 04:50 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert at 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
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