[Fedora-spins] spin kickstart/minimization cleanups

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 21:17:39 +1000,
>  David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> Again probably too late for group changes at this stage ?
>
> Simple changes should still be fine, overhauls are not. I am not sure if
> what you're proposing is simple or not.
>
>> Furthering Peter's email, what's the best place to track future plans
>> like this so that we can be reminded of them at the appropriate time ?
>
> Some places that make make sense:
> An RFE bug against spin-kickstarts cc'd to relevant spin owners.
> A spins trac ticket, again cc'd to relevant spin owners.
> A comment on the discussion page for the relevant spin.
>
> For spins that aren't tight on space adding things are easier. There are
> a few where fitting on a CD or within the FAT size limit is important
> and being able to do rare things might not be considered important enough.
>
> Some spins inherit from the livecd desktop or live desktop depending on
> whether or not they are tight on size. So by getting something added
> to live desktop, it will probably get used by the spins that aren't
> tightly constrained.

In some cases this is actually changes to the comps xml file so it has
possible (although in most cases due to rpm deps unlikely) wider
ranging effect than just on spins.

Peter