Re: How does one get a clean installation of Fedora?

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Martin Skjöldebrand <shieldfire@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sunday 28 July 2013 23.45.40 lee wrote:
>> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > lee writes:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> 
>> >> how does one get a clean installation of Fedora?  "Clean" means that
>> >> only those packages are installed that are actually needed and only
>> >> those services are running that are actually needed.
>> > 
>> > Very easy:
>> > 
>> > Step 1: figure out what packages and services you need.
>> > Step 2: install just those packages and services that you need.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, the broken dependencies seem to prevent step 2 ---
>> otherwise I could simply remove unneeded packages.
>
> I believe this kind of situation is why the Gentoo, and later, Arch 
> distributions were created. There you seriously micro manage your distribution 
> and install only what you want and in exactly the way you want.

That's how it should be.  It's nice to have the option to just install
things from packages and have them working right away, but when that
leads to too many things installed and running that aren't needed
without a choice, the question comes up what you rather spend your time
with: installing just what you need or trying to figure out how to get
rid of what you don't need.


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