[FWW] method for minimum install

[Bill Davidsen]

Joel Rees wrote:
> Not sure if I'm asking a question or trying to start a flame war here, 
> but, about four hours ago, I was getting a net install (PPC) of Fedora 9 
> going and needed to go to the store for the wife, so I thought I'd be 
> sensible for a change and not install the kitchen sink, and wait until 
> the base system was running before I started messing with the package 
> manager.
> 
> So I de-selected desktop, developer's, and server general sets from the 
> quick selection screen in the install, left it to customize after the 
> install, hit the start button, and went to the store. When I got back, 
> it was installing 889 packages.
> 
> Is 889 packages a minimal install?
> 
Unfortunately for some reason the "minimal install" feature is missing. It would 
be really desirable to have such a button, rather than having users try to get 
rid of the crap which is not needed to create a bootable system.

Even by hand it's hard to get something usable, which is a shame. There's no 
reason why people should be playing with Puppy and DSL to get something which 
could be provided via an install option.

The other side of this is that demand is small, because of Puppy and DSL. At one 
time I believe the FedoraUnity provided a minimal spin, I haven't looked at that 
in a while.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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