Rant of the day: Insane dependencies for liveusb-creator

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On 05/10/2013 10:48 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> 14 packages, 104 MB installed.... just for a simple GUI that calls
> other low-level system utils...
> Sheesh...
>
> Thinking that liveusb-creator is often run from LiveCD, wouldn't it be
> nice to create a statically linked liveusb-creator that can be
> downloaded as a single binary and run?. Furthermore, such statically
> linked executable could be compressed with the UPX executable
> compressor...

although you have already installed liveusb-creator, did you give
consideration to using;

    dd if=/path/to/iso-file of=/dev/usb

i run fedora for special programs and mainly use scientific linux,
which already had liveusb-creator installed.

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peace out.

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sl5.9 linux

tc. hago.

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