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

Fri Mar 23 16:27:12 CET 2012

2012/3/23 Matthew Dawkins <mattydaw at gmail.com>:
+>
+> 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)?
+>
+> 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.
+
+Yes, playing with minimal installation options lately (either by
+preset minimum install options or by individual package selections)
+many questions arose. I was hoping for steps toward an improvement by
+this thread.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+