Minimal Install Option

[Jef Spaleta]

Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>Youre right. What I do now is core component + base component +
>personal extras. Would be nice to have the core + base as an option in
>anaconda. A minimal "minimal" install.

Wouldn't it be great if anaconda had exactly the right pre-defined
settings for every person's personal tastes as to what a "minimal"
install means.  

Maybe there is room to discuss what a "sane" minimal install should
include if the ~460Meg minimal isn't the correct balance...but asking
for yet another possible install selection inside anaconda that serves
0.1% of the userbase is pushing it. Especially if the idea going forward
really is to throw a chunk of the installer functionality that is now in
anaconda over the fence to a 2nd stage first boot portion of an
install...a 2nd stage that would be far more capable of customized
scripting and tweaking than the 1st stage iso ramdisk.  See earlier
threads on this list from last month: "custom package selection" and
"Bring back configurability in expert mode". I think the current
anaconda package maintainer has some particular ideas as to where the
installer is going....and I dare say its NOT going in the direction of
more options for the 1st stage ramdisk based portion of the install. If
the current minimal install option can be "sanely" made smaller for the
benefit of a "significant" number of users..I'm sure some discussion and
bugreports as to what can be removed from the current minimal install
would be welcomed for evaluation.  Though bribing developers with pizza
and beer is always a good plan B. 

-jef"There is a reason why kickstart exists"spaleta 
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