On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:49:21 -0800, Troy Engel <tengel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John Hinton wrote:
> > Now, can somebody tell me why all this printer crapola gets installed
> > even though I choose no GUI and uncheck print services during a custom
> > install? I really do get a bit tired of this. I really hate to say it,
> > but it's starting to seem just a little bit like .... oh no... i can't
> > say winders..
>
> I've had it happen now on both RHES4 and CentOS4 -- it doesn't stop
> there with printer junk, the "checking dependancies" pulls in a lot of
> crap that I specifically deselected (kernel-smp-devel comes to mind). Go
> figure - here I thought I knew what I was doing after 10 years.
>
> -te
>
You may be interested in the Fedora Minimal Project. It's small, but
Rodolfo is always looking for more feedback if you'd like. If I
remember correctly, they cleaned ~70MB of unnecessary cruft
dependencies out of the minimal installer in FC2 and the changes
landed for FC3 (and thus RHEL4).
http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/barebones-server-howto.php
Greg
