[Mageia-dev] installation: deselect attempts cause select

Wed Dec 26 16:10:59 CET 2012

On 2012-12-26 15:47 (GMT+0100) Manuel Hiebel composed:
+
+> Felix Miata composed:
+
+>> 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 ?
+
+00000001b
+
+There wouldn't be any point if M2, would there? :-)
+
+>  because there was some improvement since mga2
+
+I haven't noticed any.
+
+> also post your /root/drakx/report.bug
+
+No file there by that exact name, but:
+
+	http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/Drakx/reportbugC-kt880-121225.xz
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