Regarding install options

[Martin Langhoff]

2008/10/14 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 00:45 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
>> Is it possible to design these sets for anaconda without recreating a boot
>> image, but only e.g. pointing it to an external repo that only contains comps
>> information?

Even working with anaconda and doing your own spins with revisor it's
not easy to get a slim F9 install. It's almost impossible to shed the
gtk/xorg toolchain because anaconda pulls it in.

> I think you'd have a lot of "fun" trying to get the UI right for your
> suggestion,

Other distros I use offer this ("desktop install", "server install"
radio buttons) instead of the current anaconda sets, and hide the
comps groups behind an 'advanced' option. The server install does
_not_ install X.

And on a different email, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> > Though a Fedora installation with yum + rpm isn't "truely minimal", it's
>> > the minimal install to keep an installation usable/maintainable.
>>
>> Which is useful to some, too fat for others.
>
> Well, to me a "no-yum" installation is an ignorable extremal singular
> case.

The embedded devices crowd uses this kind of install ("no yum, no rpm
even") quite a bit, and they have a lot of overlap with the "headless
server" crowd in interests. So if you don't ignore that requirement,
you get a larger community of users/developers with a significant
overlap with your interests :-)

Even if each group thinks that the other is crazy... the overlap is
significant, and both can feed off each other.

Note! I am not arguing that such "no yum" option needs to be available
from the GUI anaconda installer. That'd be pointless. I just say that
it should be possible and at least somewhat supported via anaconda in
combination with revisor or pungi.

Right now it does not seem to be.

cheers,



m
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