2008/10/14 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 00:45 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
>> Is it possible to design these sets for anaconda without recreating a boot
>> image, but only e.g. pointing it to an external repo that only contains comps
>> information?
Even working with anaconda and doing your own spins with revisor it's
not easy to get a slim F9 install. It's almost impossible to shed the
gtk/xorg toolchain because anaconda pulls it in.
> I think you'd have a lot of "fun" trying to get the UI right for your
> suggestion,
Other distros I use offer this ("desktop install", "server install"
radio buttons) instead of the current anaconda sets, and hide the
comps groups behind an 'advanced' option. The server install does
_not_ install X.
And on a different email, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Though a Fedora installation with yum + rpm isn't "truely minimal", it's
>> > the minimal install to keep an installation usable/maintainable.
>>
>> Which is useful to some, too fat for others.
>
> Well, to me a "no-yum" installation is an ignorable extremal singular
> case.
The embedded devices crowd uses this kind of install ("no yum, no rpm
even") quite a bit, and they have a lot of overlap with the "headless
server" crowd in interests. So if you don't ignore that requirement,
you get a larger community of users/developers with a significant
overlap with your interests :-)
Even if each group thinks that the other is crazy... the overlap is
significant, and both can feed off each other.
Note! I am not arguing that such "no yum" option needs to be available
from the GUI anaconda installer. That'd be pointless. I just say that
it should be possible and at least somewhat supported via anaconda in
combination with revisor or pungi.
Right now it does not seem to be.
cheers,
m
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