There's a need for a separate boot target since
persistent storage is way slower than tmpfs indeed;
usbflash has a tendency for huge performance drops
given simultaneous writes in addition to reads which
are the bottleneck already.

make-initrd-propagator 0.18 introduced ext4 rw slice,
so the corresponding kernel module needs to be included
into stage1; see also #28289.

NB: not available on x86_64-efi (or hybrid GPT to be strict)
due to fragility of the hack being made: parted(8) panics
upon seeing that, and good ol' fdisk is unable to treat it.

NB: use/live/rw use/rescue/rx use/syslinux/ui/gfxboot
are unlikely to play very nice together due to the latter's
magic l10n: "session" label is taken by live_rw config snippet
and *is* translated in design-bootloader-source;
OTOH "rescue_session" is *not*.

The original mkisofs would only care for the proper ISO9660 image
but we've switched to xorriso which is able to perform the hack
to yield UEFI hybrid images; thus no need for the postprocessing.

Requires mkimage >= 0.2.5 and xorriso (obviously).

- fonts: axios!

UEFI means quite a chunk of additional packages that aren't really
required for the *base* target aimed at presumably minimalistic images.

As implemented in livecd-webkiosk-0.2.

Thanks sem@ for restoring xorg-utils, things are good again :)
(basically reverts d1a6eed8)

Looks like the cause to temporarily omit these is irrelevant.

Added sysklogd and udev-rule-generator-net there too; if someone
needs to inherit a systemd based image from distro/.desktop-network
don't break the existing behaviour please.

Rebased tde flavours to .desktop-network as these were the actual
target to fix.

There's some peculiarity causing Sisyphus' initrd
(namely led-ws and make-initrd{,-propagator} of today
to die with this message while booting the resulting ISO:

  initrd: Running /scripts/pre/prepare/000-propagator
  FATAL ERROR IN INIT: mkdir

  I can't recover from this,please reboot manually and send bugreport.

It might be in the base target if gdm3 weren't exposing bugs...

The setup has to be livecd-only thus made as a service, not a hook.

Thanks aen@ for the whole pkglist and vast amounts of advice
and inspiration; thanks real@ and kostyalamer for the packages
themselves.

...and introduced regular-sugar flavour immediately,
it's rather working by now.

Now waiting for the package base to stabilize...

It's required by make-initrd-propagator in "rw slice" mode
when the remainder of an USB Flash drive is prepared and used
for persistent storage; fdisk is also immensely useful in general.

It's been merged into recent firmware-linux, apparently.

Please see the bug for explanations; too bad I chose to limit this
workaround to experimental gnustep image yesterday when aen@ suggested
to apply it universally...

Arora is long unsupported and left known buggy (#26937);
QupZilla is alive and kickin', on the other hand.

Whoops, and I was mildly wondering where are alterator modules...
thanks Speccyfighter again for bringing attention to the issue
which has turned out to be ultimately caused by an overlooked bit
being missing.

Added xkb module as per Speccyfighter's request on the forum
and x11 one due to aen@'s advice (which is fairly reasonable).

The real issue was that regular-tde.iso was discovered to
lack FAT support in alterator-vm (known as #28470); as the
filesystem specific packages are pulled in via rescue lists
let's add it here along with dosfstools.

Thanks Speccyfighter at forum.altlinux.org for spotting this.

1.14 package set doesn't provide these convenient metapackages
anymore, unfortunately.

As zerg@ noted there's synaptic-kde already; I managed to overlook
that synaptic-usermode still gets into kde4 image as it's put into
base+regular pkglist.  Thanks aen@ for spotting.

The mechanics were simple and funny but having unified kernel
available is even better ;-)

I've got some Trio64 cards, even...

...so that enp0s3 is just not there.

It was proposed by someone and looks pretty reasonable.

Sort of unification; still the background of the regular builds should
rather be the particular DE's authentic one in the ideal case.

plymouth helper omitted as it's not mission critical usually.

apt-get is requisite for a network-enabled livecd
with rw overlay since it's almost universal then.

It's currently security+extra.

Things that weren't fit in the other rescue pkglists went here;
more are sure to follow.

It happens to hold a noticeable share of what might go into
rescue+misc, so why duplicate.

Quite a few filesystem specific tools and utilities went into extra,
some of them pulled back from fs since the proper categorization will
clearly require even more effort.

Added utilities for: f2fs, nilfs, logfs, reiser4fs, clicfs, cloop,
ocfs2, exofs, zfs, cifs.

It would be better to put it into stage2 in the first place
but this somehow went over my head; rescue made a reminder.

This one was just asking to be built for quite a long time;
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/LiveCDs
specifically accenting use of smartmontools 6.0 has finally
persuaded me to roll out yet another rescue livecd, that is
on the regular basis.