Removing packages in post can break including the livecd-desktop ks in other ks (which is a recommend practice) if the other ks needs any of the removed packages.

The yum remove in post should be removed.

The downside to doing it now is that the alpha cd image may end up being oversized. But it's possible that other spins might not incluide all of their intended packages if this isn't reverted now.

The hope is that by GA syslinux will be fixed not to depend on perl so that this doesn't end up being a problem.