FC4 for servers

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:04:51AM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately there seems to be an
> expectation when these discussions usually crop up that the burden
> should be on Red Hat to provide the solution..

There are two problems here which tend to push strongly in
direction.  One is that documentation explaining internals of
an installation process is not exactly abundant.  I had an
opportunity to hack instalation images for CDs and servers and
quite a bit of that was a guesswork.

The other issue is a dependency creep.  Over time everything
tend to depend on everything and you drop in into your set
something seemingly innocuous and boom - you are installing
half of KDE and artsd daemon even if you do not really have
a sound card in that box (that is a description of a general
trend so do not take program names too literally). IIRC Rodolfo
bumped into that a number of times.  This is not something you
can solve "outside" if dependencies are not guarded carefuly in
the first place.

  Michal