[Mageia-dev] installation: deselect attempts cause select

Wed Dec 26 15:47:21 CET 2012

Le 26/12/2012 15:44, Felix Miata a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+Is that cauldron ? because there was some improvement since mga2
+also post your /root/drakx/report.bug
+