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how does that work? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> is this really required? or is this something that's somehow done in the +</I>><i> graphic installer? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> i mean, i didn't select graphic grub, i chose text-grub specifically. and +</I>><i> somehow during the choosePackages step, the mageia-gfxboot-theme is +</I>><i> automatically selected... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> this is the packages that's adding via extra dep and suggests, most of the +</I>><i> stuff... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> where can i find the code that is responsible for this, so i can try and fix it? +</I> +we preselect it here so that it got installed early: +<A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/any.pm?revision=3532&view=markup">http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/any.pm?revision=3532&view=markup</A> + +because else it'll be automatically pulled later, adding a one package (or more) +wait later: +<A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/bootloader.pm?revision=3581&view=markup">http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/bootloader.pm?revision=3581&view=markup</A> + +just look mageia-gfxboot-theme + +Of course, that's OK for 99% of our users but for those manually +selecting text lilo. +That's a trade off: enforcing waiting for packages installation after all +the other package installation so that a couple users can not have +the bootsplash installed and select lilo or having a couple users +unhappy +BWe could not preselect + +><i> about firewall, perhaps it's possible to just include iptables, but set policy +</I>><i> on DROP incoming? shorewall seems a bit over the top... +</I> +we configure shorewall, not iptables. + +><i> but, if summary isn't completed, you can't boot into it, wrt bootloader? so +</I>><i> firewall seems useless for that...? what is the rationale behind this? +</I> +In the old days we let poeple choose the security level early then we +automatically install & set up the firewall accordingly. +Later the security choice was moved to the summary and security level +number was reduced from to 3 (see msec or security::level) +But since the default security level is 1 ("standard"), we automatically +install the firewall anyway. +For years. +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013442.html">[Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="013445.html">[Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#13444">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#13444">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#13444">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#13444">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |