Minimal Install Option

[Jack Aboutboul]

On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 19:39 Asia/Jerusalem, Bill Anderson wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 09:09, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:38:09AM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
>>> File it as a bug! Or maybe you want to step up and be part of a
>>> worthwhile discussion as to re-working of the existing minimal 
>>> install
>>> option. Since it seems its really a more a matter of how the packages
>>> are grouped and which groups a minimal install actually installs..its
>>> more a policy issue than an expert coding issue. This seems like
>>> something we can have a nice lovely little community discussion
>>> about...instead of just poking repeatedly at the anaconda maintainer 
>>> to
>>> remove this one package here...or this one other package..or maybe 
>>> add
>>> this one package to minimal. And its certainly a better idea to fix 
>>> the
>>> current minimal install offering than adding another minimal minimal
>>> layer beyond the "broken" minimal.
>>>
>>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2003-July/msg00569.html
>>
>> This discussion always tends to conflate different notions of 
>> "minimal".
>>
>> The question is "minimal" w.r.t what criterion?  Is it the bare list
>> of packages necessary to get to a login prompt on a standalone 
>> machine?
>> Is it a networked host?  Is documentation included?  Manpages?
>> Info files? /usr/share/doc?
>
> In general, I could agree with this. However, the description on 
> Minimal
> states "for small router/firewall boxes" which gives us a reasonable
> expectation.
>

True. I think router/firewall in the description is a bit misleading.  
You can either change the packages or change the description, hence, we 
should change the packages.

> Oh, and for those who say "just install and remove... then make a
> kickstart"...
>
> The problem with the "just install and remove then make a kickstart
> file" mentality is the "and remove" section. Remove foo and find it
> relies on bar, eggs, bacon, and spam.

That's definately quote of the year. Who rocks? Bill Rocks!

--Jack