Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote: >> The set of customizations is actually pretty small, and will get smaller >> as we work our way towards integrating the live CD technology as an >> architectural element of the system, rather than as a set of add-ons as >> it is right now. Ultimately, there shouldn't be a difference in the >> software that results. We're already doing pretty well, as "pkg verify" >> doesn't show much of anything that we control as being amiss as of >> preview 2. > > Could these customizations become part of a livecd package that just > get removed after copying to installation target? This would make it > so that it is easy to understand exactly what customizations are > needed to create the livecd image and ensure that as that set of > customizations change over time there is no need to add logic to the > installer to undo those customizations. >
That's already mostly the case. The SUNWslim-utils package, which is removed from the disk image at the end of the installation process, has most of the live CD specials. To the extent that any specials exist by the time we're done, that's what we'd expect to do. Dave
