please deactivate services by default!

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Sep 25 20:46:02 UTC 2008


Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>> This has *nothing* to do with upgrades. This is all about the desktop
>>>>> livecd only.
>>>> But the livecd "copy to hard drive" option is a quick-and-easy way to
>>>> install a system from a single CD, at which point this is NOT just about
>>>> the CD version.
>>> Is sendmail so huge it doesn't fit on the livecd? I suspect not, this
>>> conversation started about boot time after all. So... don't start it for the
>>> livecd, *do* start it when the livecd is installed to disk.
>> Live CD is always cramped for space. So everything that doesn't really fit
>> the regular single user desktop use cases (and sometimes even that) would
>> probably be removed from the live cd unless there are package dependencies.
>> Even earlier today, release engineering was fighting to get it down to CD
>> size.
> 
> Dare I ask why numactl is on there then :-) Its not like a person
> installing a numactl system wouldn't know how to install a package and
> its fairly distant from your mainstream.

@core and @base is shared between the regular dvd images and live images 
and sometimes these niche packages sneak it. I made a bunch of changes 
in the live base ks file for future builds to save some space. If folks 
find anything amiss, let me know.

Rahul




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