John Hinton wrote:
> Tom Brown wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Installed my first CentOS box last night after coming from Whitebox -
>> This is perhaps me being stupid but on install i opted for 'Custom'
>> install as i prefer minimal and then build as i suit. I went through
>> the list of things to install and removed everything apart from
>> networking. Install happenned and tons of stull ended up being
>> installed including X openoffice and the like - Why was that when i
>> de-selected everything apart from networking? It was very much
>> bloatware and not what i want on a server.
>>
>> thanks for any hints
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>
>
> First, this is RedHat's direction, not something specific to CentOS
> (just cloning you know).
>
> This has been my complaint with RedHat products for some time now
> (about rh 7.3 or so). CentOS is simply following that system. One of
> the things that's really hard to get rid of are the graphical
> interfaces.... RH manage this... RH manage that, which seems to make
> X-fonts install, but I'm not sure if this is all. You can turn them
> off in one place and then find them in set to install in at least one
> other situation. Got to turn them off all over the place. An install
> of el4 versions seems to force X, whether you want it or not, in spite
> of unchecking X.
I do a minimal install, then install the packages(httpd,mysql,php,etc)I
need. Never ran across a problem with it installing X when I didn't
want it.
Dan
