[Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

Thu Mar 22 00:30:53 CET 2012

i did a network install
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+and choose 'custom', then deselected everything, pressed next
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+i got to the next menu of installation and left these to default:
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+ - no X
+ - no suggestions
+ - basic doc still on
+ - truly minimal was off
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+but, i ended up with x libraries, fonts, etc...
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+so i dug a bit deeper as to why and looked at the ddebug.log file:
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+afaict dracut seems to require plymouth, and mageia-gfxboot-theme seems to be 
+there no matter what option i choose from the summary, it seems it was already 
+installed before the summary.
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+thing is, without a full kickstart (which i don't want to, i'd like to keep 
+doing partitioning manually, but kickstart seems not to do the interactive 
+requests), i can't really make a minimal system to begin with...
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+for this release, if at all possible, i'd still like to get a bit smaller for 
+minimal setups, and like to present a nongraphic grub by default when X is 
+unselected, and also have no need for gfxboot or plymouth when i don't have a 
+graphic grub (even though this isn't the same)
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+furthermore, if i'm installing without X the default runlevel target seems to 
+still be the graphic one, and not the multi-user one...
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+perhaps it's possible to have this as alternatives or something? which could 
+be set by the CAT_X thingie? one installing one package and the other 
+installing the other package?
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