On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Gabriel Sfestarof <ronin3510 at gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/24/2011 11:10 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > Having a script to >> use yum to bring in things missing from a default desktop install, as >> Les suggests, might be a good touch. > I'm not sure it has to be a script. A documented step to be made upon > restart by those who used the live cd should be like that: > > "Due to space/dependencies limitations some packages were forcibly > removed to accommodate the live environment/installer. > In order to have a seamless experience regardless for all CentOS > instalations, live-cd users are advised/required to perform the > following step upon first reboot: > > yum install @<group1> @<group2> @<groupX> && yum update" Yes, that's safe way around it, I guess. Also, I agree that @group... is needed - "yum reinstall ..." will only act on currently installed packages, and we want *group* matching, correct? > That should be pretty straightforward to any one. If, by any one, you mean someone minimally familiar with packages and groups of yum-based distros. In other words *not* a shiny new user. Wait, aren't new users a prime target for the LiveCD/DVD concept in the first place?? > The exact group of packages to be appended to the above command will be > known once the live-dvd packages have been agreed upon. Yes, all the more reason for the LiveCD to *complete* the install, either right away, or after the reboot. It also becomes virtually the same as both the LiveDVD install *and* installs from other sources, and that seems pretty nice... jerry