>>> This has *nothing* to do with upgrades. This is all about
the desktop
>>> livecd only.
>>
>> But the livecd "copy to hard drive" option is a quick-and-easy way to
>> install a system from a single CD, at which point this is NOT just about
>> the CD version.
>
> Is sendmail so huge it doesn't fit on the livecd? I suspect not, this
> conversation started about boot time after all. So... don't start it for the
> livecd, *do* start it when the livecd is installed to disk.
Live CD is always cramped for space. So everything that doesn't really fit
the regular single user desktop use cases (and sometimes even that) would
probably be removed from the live cd unless there are package dependencies.
Even earlier today, release engineering was fighting to get it down to CD
size.
Dare I ask why numactl is on there then :-) Its not like a person
installing a numactl system wouldn't know how to install a package and
its fairly distant from your mainstream.
Peter