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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On<FONT size=1> </FONT><FONT size=2>Tuesday, March
28, 2006 1:55 PM, Lamont R. Peterson <</FONT><A
href="mailto:lamont@gurulabs.com">lamont@gurulabs.com</A>>
wrote,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But still, I don't see any relevance or viability
to saying, "SUSE must be <BR>better because they install lots of junk I don't
need in only 1 hour, where <BR>FC took me 2 hours to install all that junk and
there wasn't as much junk." <BR>Um, maybe I just found the
relevance?</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>What do you mean by junk files ? Can you
prove your statement with proper example(s) ? If you want to tell that the
packages related to</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>specific hardware that is not available in
your system</FONT></DIV></LI>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>some languages that you don't
know</FONT></DIV></LI>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>dependency of other packages that you would never
use</FONT></DIV></LI></OL>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>then those packages are unnecessary
packages for you. Now I saw a interesting situation: I installed FC5 without
selecting any packages from KDE; but still it installs kdelibs.
On the next day I installed FC5 without any packages from Gnome. Now it
installs one gnome library. This problem is not only for FC5. Now come to
hardware related packages. I de-selects printer packages on FC4 but it installs
it. So, Fedora core has many unnecessary packages. For SuSE it is very
early to comment on as I am relatively new to SuSE.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I still don't think that Red Hat (RHEL or
FC) minimal installs are very minimal.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I appreciate that.</FONT></DIV>
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