[Fedora-livecd-list] Use of lokkit in livecd-builder

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 08:44 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> The F9 version of livecd-tools usese /usr/sbin/lokkit to enable and 
> disable the firewall. There is a FIXME near it to suport the rest of the 
> options which lokkit takes. The current implementation executes this in 
> the chroot environment, so forces several packages to be deployed into 
> the image when it is built. Since I would be curious in reducing the 
> package set for the images which are built, I am curious if there are 
> plans around any of the following:
> 
> 1) Remove the use of lokkit and instead directly manipulate the files 
> (or perhaps use augeas).

Not really.  We use lokkit so that when things change, there's only one
implementation that needs changing.  And this is a *good* thing.  And
augeas would be seen as a far more "one-off" dep than lokkit at this
point to most of the world.

> 2) Look to break up system-config-firewall-tui so that lokkit is a 
> separate package with less dependencies.

The big dep that looks trimmable is rhpl as it's just used for
translation stuff (... and I want to get things off of using
rhpl.translate and just using the gettext module directly anyway).
There's not really anything else which is even feasible to remove

Jeremy