Re: FC5 minimal install includes X(!) and cups

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 04:35:03PM -0400, Andrew Lofthouse wrote:
> Fedora were only about 400-500 MB.  So, here's the question:  why does the
> minimal install include all of these extra packages that are not necessary
> for a text-only system?  And why are the printing packages always installed?

This has been discussed before on the fedora-devel list. In short, narrowing
the list down to minimal-but-functional-and-still-fulfilling-all-deps is a
non-trivial problem and no one has really put in the time to working it out.

To help, look at os/Fedora/base/comps.xml in the development branch, and
work out how the Core and Base groups could be narrowed down (without
breaking things).

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