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    <B>Ahmad Samir</B> 
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    <I>Sat Oct 23 07:16:51 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 22 October 2010 22:57, Juergen Harms &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">Juergen.Harms at unige.ch</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> There is a secondary issue tied to the questions discussed in this thread:
</I>&gt;<i> is it good strategy to do all package selection quite early during system
</I>&gt;<i> generation? At present, package selection looks to me as an integral part of
</I>&gt;<i> the system generation process, &quot;burned&quot; onto the installation media. Must
</I>&gt;<i> that be so? has this question already been discussed?
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</I>&gt;<i> Naively, I see an alternative: cut package selection into 2 parts:
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</I>&gt;<i> (1) have system installation start by configuring a minimum set of packages,
</I>&gt;<i> those that are strictly necessary to obtain a running system for the
</I>&gt;<i> hardware and the desktop environment auto-detected / user-selected.
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</I>&gt;<i> (2) install additional packages that customise the system to the profile
</I>&gt;<i> desired by the user only at the end of system generation - that could even
</I>&gt;<i> be delayed to the time the system does its first bootstrap (that could still
</I>&gt;<i> be done in a way that is transparent to users who want an out-of-the-box
</I>&gt;<i> installation).
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With the current installer you can select &quot;customize&quot; (instead of
selecting KDE or GNOME) and uncheck all the options there when you
click next the installer will even give you options to:
- install/not-install X
- install/not-install suggested packages
- go with a really minimal system and not install even urpmi


So, either it's a new user, he can select KDE or GNOME; or it's an
advanced/experienced user, he can deselect all the packages he wants,
and go with a very minimal system to begin with and then add the bits
and pieces he wants.

&gt;<i> [...]
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Ahmad Samir
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