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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal</H1>
    <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B> 
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<PRE>2012/3/23 Matthew Dawkins &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mattydaw at gmail.com</A>&gt;:
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</I>&gt;<i> On Mar 23, 2012 3:41 AM, &quot;Wolfgang Bornath&quot; &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">molch.b at googlemail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 2012/3/23 Thierry Vignaud &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com</A>&gt;:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; I've asked previously if we want a firewall installed before summary,
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; anne &amp;
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt; blino said it was OK
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Nice! And how is the user supposed to avoid installing a firewall with
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> all those dependencies if he does not need it (ie if the firewall
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> functions are handled by another device in the LAN?)? I see no sense
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> having a firewall with all dependencies on all my machines in the LAN
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> when there is a dedicated device/pc for this function. So why not
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> leave that to the summary (or an extra question) during installer and
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> then install the necessary packages according to the answer (yes or
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> no)?
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> If interested, I did a lot of what I called thinning of the distro for mdv
</I>&gt;<i> to get my UL CLI isos down to 100MB.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> There's not just one point in the dep chain that starts the deluge of
</I>&gt;<i> unnecessary pkgs.
</I>
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.

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wobo
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