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

Fri Mar 23 16:22:18 CET 2012

On Mar 23, 2012 3:41 AM, "Wolfgang Bornath" <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>
+> 2012/3/23 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
+> > I've asked previously if we want a firewall installed before summary,
+anne &
+> > blino said it was OK
+>
+> Nice! And how is the user supposed to avoid installing a firewall with
+> all those dependencies if he does not need it (ie if the firewall
+> functions are handled by another device in the LAN?)? I see no sense
+> having a firewall with all dependencies on all my machines in the LAN
+> when there is a dedicated device/pc for this function. So why not
+> leave that to the summary (or an extra question) during installer and
+> then install the necessary packages according to the answer (yes or
+> no)?
+>
+> --
+> wobo
+
+If interested, I did a lot of what I called thinning of the distro for mdv
+to get my UL CLI isos down to 100MB.
+
+There's not just one point in the dep chain that starts the deluge of
+unnecessary pkgs.
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