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

Thu Mar 22 08:40:14 CET 2012

On 22 March 2012 00:30, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+> i did a network install
+>
+> and choose 'custom', then deselected everything, pressed next
+>
+> i got to the next menu of installation and left these to default:
+>
+>  - no X
+>  - no suggestions
+>  - basic doc still on
+>  - truly minimal was off
+>
+> but, i ended up with x libraries, fonts, etc...
+
+note that having a couple x11 package is not installing x11.
+I've made the minimal install quite a lot smaller.
+
+We still have issues with suggests that makes installation explodes.
+I've reports some bugs but maintainers just don't care.
+See eg: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4357 that got
+reaffected to me because the maintainer doesn't care about
+bloating the install
+This particular one isn't about minimal install but about gnome install
+but the underlying issue will bloats any minimal install + light desktop
++ _one_ gtk+ application.
+
+> 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...
+
+you can still do a semi automatic install.
+