Re: Feature Request : canned minimum

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Kam Leo wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:53:29 -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote:

 > On Monday 03 March 2008 3:44:54 pm Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
 >>      Didn't anaconda use to include an option to do a minimum install?
 [...]

     I don't know whether the feature is feasible, much less why or
 >> why not; but I'd sure be glad of *some* easier way.


How about starting with one of the live CDs? Less to trim, easier to
 > update and you can then add various bits and pieces to fit within your
 > space budget. I did that last week using the Live KDE version of F8, and
 > it went very well.

        Hmmm .... I *think* I tried that ...

        I tried so many things that I've not only forgotten why I gave
 upon which, but even what all I tried. Otoh, I was wondering last night
 whether I ought to try it again ...


 > I should point out that space isn't a problem here -- I've got a 320 GB
 > hard drive and had plenty of space for Fedora. I was just trying to cut
 > down all of the time spent installing, upgrading and then maintaining a
 > bunch of stuff that I don't need and don't use.

        IOW, the feature would be welcome, if it were to (re)appear, in
 more places than just among early adopters of tiny machines.

        I remember I tried EeeDora first of all; the deviser of it had
 obviously put a lot of work into it, and I've been seeing more than I
 want of how much that really was.

        I'm pretty sure the trouble there, once I got the right version,
 was that his minimum wasn't my minimum. It seems several of the
 minimalist distros -- Knoppix, DSL, and several others -- still use a
 kernel that's not compatible with the hardware in the EeePC. But EeeDora
 was made from F8.

        At this point, I'm down to where I can hardly remove half a dozen
 apps without getting a dependency requirement I'm not willing to live
 with. Pretty soon I'll have to start not only removing one at a time, but
 rebooting every time.

        Stay  tuned.

 --
 Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert

Therein lies the rub: Their minimum is not your minimum.

Use pungi and create your own distribution.


That doesn't help. Pungi's idea of a minimal distribution contains 373 packages. Somehow, gnome is a dependency of the kernel. I just filed this bug against revisor, but it's using pungi under the hood:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436020

This is why Debian has Requires, Recommends, and Suggests.

-- Chris

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