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

Thu Mar 22 09:31:03 CET 2012

2012/3/22 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
+> 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.
+>
+Both gnome-keyring and task-gnome are maintained by nobody, could you
+modify the spec and close the bug?
+