what do livesys and livesys_late services do?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:38:18 -0600
Ranjan Maitra <maitra at iastate.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, btw, there are a number of rpms etc that are involved in the
> installation. It would be nice if the LiveCD installation would
> automatically get rid of things that are never going to be of any use.

Can you provide some examples? 
Things installed are there because they were specifically requested or
are required by things that do. :) 

> The Ubuntu LiveCD (such as XFCE/LXDE) for instance has an explicit
> process which describes unneeded rpms (they call them .debs) being
> removed. It would be more efficient and less wasteful of resources for
> F to also get rid of these rpms which have no role to play as
> installation. 

The scripts we are talking about are not in any package, they are an
artifact of the live media install. If you look at them, you should see
that in fact they just exit and do nothing on an installed system. ;) 

kevin
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