'Many' packages installed - CentOS 4.1

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John Hinton wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> I don't know, I must be choosing something that's throwing the extra 
> garbage in. And I know, I could write my own KS, but gee, I don't do it 
> often enough for that and some machines vary, for instance some are 
> nameservers some are not. A person can spend a lot of time in dependancy 
> hell trying to get a clean install. If one does select minimal, are you 
> presented with the custom option during install? Or is minimal only 
> available at the bottom of the customization screen? Seems like figuring 
> out what's missing might not be worth the effort to trim the fat? And 
> maybe I'm crazy, but it seems that installing packages like bind during 
> the intial install, configures itself more completely off the start 
> versus installing the package later?
> 
> A great point was made..... Custom should be Custom and should allow 
> minimal within that scope. Custom doesn't even seem to have nearly the 
> full package list shown, although yes, it can be argued that some 
> packages simply must be installed and therefore don't need to be shown. 
> Then again, maybe one of my 'other' selections is throwing X into the game?
> 
> When CentOS finalizes their 'Server CD', perhaps a copy should be sent 
> to RedHat!! LOL!
> 
> Again, I know this is not a 'CentOS' issue. And crap... here I go 
> rambling again! Sorry.

Just to throw in my $0.02: we do minimal installs with all our RHEL and 
CentOS boxes (both 3 and 4) and it really is minimal - no X, no GUI, no 
KDE/GNOME or Window Managers. If you're building a server then you know 
what should be on it so you can just do things like 'yum install httpd 
php mysql' or whatever to get yourself going. Its a very clean way of 
doing things.

-- 
Tim Edwards

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