<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Neil,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for bringing this up. It looks like this could be of some value to deployments and something they could easily add should they choose to customize their build image. Keep up the good work and let us know how development is going.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Reuben</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:54 PM, Neil Graham wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:13 -0500, Reuben K. Caron wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Since .XO and .XOL bundles were specifically designed to be "safe" for <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">installation and removal, I'm concerned the inclusion of gnome-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">packagekit would allow one to more easily break their installation but <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I also think it would be nice for children to explore the rest of what <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Fedora has to provide.<br></blockquote>Perhaps this is something for Zeroinstall <a href="http://0install.net/">http://0install.net/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.<br>ZeroInstall allows for installation of software as a user so you can do<br>things without making system level changes.<br><br>I'm working on a setup for the XO that can give you a custom<br>environment. The entire thing goes into $HOME. I uses Zeroinstall to<br>grab everything as needed, even the window manager. In practice the<br>bundle comes with the window manager but that is merely as a pre-filled<br>zeroinstall cache entry.<br><br>Because everything is done at the user level, it is very hard to break<br>things, but it still allows users to have a great deal of flexibility<br>with their system.<br><br></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>