On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:04:51AM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Unfortunately there seems to be an > expectation when these discussions usually crop up that the burden > should be on Red Hat to provide the solution.. There are two problems here which tend to push strongly in direction. One is that documentation explaining internals of an installation process is not exactly abundant. I had an opportunity to hack instalation images for CDs and servers and quite a bit of that was a guesswork. The other issue is a dependency creep. Over time everything tend to depend on everything and you drop in into your set something seemingly innocuous and boom - you are installing half of KDE and artsd daemon even if you do not really have a sound card in that box (that is a description of a general trend so do not take program names too literally). IIRC Rodolfo bumped into that a number of times. This is not something you can solve "outside" if dependencies are not guarded carefuly in the first place. Michal