> > Ah, good, just the person I was hoping would weigh in on this issue! > > I feel the love :-) See? You're talking about minimal installs for fun now instead of because you have to. There's just something wrong with that. > > If you only check Office without General, on the customize screen you > > will only see the Office task's groups selected. However, I believe the > > package dependencies will then pull in all the required packages, which > > should cover most of the desktop stuff. > > It'll pull in some required stuff, but not necessarily things like, > say, "an X server" I believe. So things will run, but it's not > necessarily that useful. Yeah okay. That could potentially leave out a whole lot of useful stuff. So we would either need to (1) come up with a different UI approach to make the minimal install work, or (2) enforce the General task getting installed if you check the Desktop one. > > There's a lot of "should" and "most" in that last sentence, though. It > > seems like General should also pull in all of Office, and now we're > > talking task dependencies, and that's pretty awful. > > Yep, that's why I've closed the bug WONTFIX a bunch of times in the past ;) It's a pretty terrible concept, I agree. > I honestly *don't* have a great answer aside from "take out > interactive package selection altogether". But that continues to > prove unpopular. That's still on my list of things to investigate. So far, this is the best idea I've come up with for getting a minimal install. And I think we are going to get forced into doing *something* this release. Of course, better/differently bad suggestions are always welcome. - Chris _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
