[Mageia-dev] installation: deselect attempts cause select

Wed Dec 26 15:44:49 CET 2012

This is not a new problem, but I've never seen it mentioned. Typically I test 
+install to real partitions 4800MiB in size. This limited space is adequate 
+for what I do with a test installation, but requires I carefully choose what 
+gets installed or not. Devel, "server", multimedia, games, office apps and 
+Java I always exclude for space reasons. I don't use them often enough to be 
+able to recognize if anything was wrong with them. Even though I select 
+custom instead of KDE or Gnome, and on next screen deselect everything that 
+won't cause urpmi not to install, several things are preselected that make no 
+sense for a minimal install, such as every (4 total?) X DE. When I try to 
+deselect any of several of these preselections, it acts like an initial 
+selection of a large task instead of a deselection. It takes a second try to 
+actually deselect. In several cases, the attempt to deselect results in a 
+select that requires more space than is "available". Before I can deselect in 
+those cases, I must find smaller selections to deselect and free up space 
+before it will let me select what I'm actually trying to deselect. Then I 
+must go back to those indirectly forced deselections to reselect them. When 
+done, I typically find about 60% or so of the 4800MiB actually gets used by 
+the time I've configured no-suggests and urpmi'd what I needed but couldn't 
+select during installation without pulling in the space wasters. Ultimate 
+goal is usually no frills KDE, with none of file manager, IM, PIM/Kmail or 
+desktop search. I do 99.97% of my email POP in SeaMonkey, but not in test 
+installations. All my searching and most text file editing is done using MC.
+
+NAICT, it's impossible to install to include urpmi and exclude 100% of X and 
+its deps.
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