[SoaS] SoaS v2 feedback

[Peter Robinson]

Hi All,

I finally got the time tonight to sit down and put the latest SoaS2
test release on my XO-1 to take it for a spin. Very nice. Unlike SoaS1
it boots again on my XO-1 :-) YAY!

Now some quick feedback to help improve it.

On the XO release at least if you remove the livecd-tools (which will
in turn remove syslinux) the perl dependency will be removed saving
about 35 meg. I believe the point of the livecd-tools is to allow the
duplication of usb keys which wouldn't work on the XO variant anyway.
I'm working to get the syslinux dependence on perl split out into a
sub package upstream.

Also if you explicitly add 'ssmtp' or remove the requirement of cronie
you'll lose sendmail in turn saving a couple more meg and the startup
of a daemon.

To fix the camera all you should need to add is
'gstreamer-plugins-good' and that should pull in all that's needed to
get that to work (no idea why you've excluded that anyway :-) )

There's also an issue with the 'olpc' repository URL. Should probably
move it to somewhere other than dsd's home dir.

It seems also the auto import of rpm keys is broken for some reason
and hence I can't pull in the new Fedora-12 signing key which has
screwed the updates. I presume that's due to hacked
fedora/generic-release rpm. Can someone confirm?

I'll have more of a look over the next couple of days if I get a
chance, a quick look showed quite a few spots where the included
packages can be reduced.

Cheers,
Peter