test2 initial reactions

[Pekka Pietikainen]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:39:59PM -0600, Bill Anderson wrote:
> > Intentional. We recommend using redhat-config-packages if you have
> > additional software to install not covered by the component groups
> > screen.  We're going to a model where everything interesting (as the
> > designer of the comps file deems it) has to be in a component group in
> > the comps file.  I think it makes more sense for interactive use to get
> > through the install quickly w/o alot of questions and then use a tool
> > designed for the task (in this case, redhat-config-packages) to complete
> > the operation.
> But I like to *deselect* packages as well during install, will that be
> an option?
Optimal would be for the system to have no extra packages at all 
when firstboot gets run, so there would be nothing to deselect :-)

Ideally people who want a minimal firewall and people who want 4 gigs of 
graphical gizmos have the same set of packages on the harddrive when
the machine first boots, the former just doesn't install anything else.
It gets a bit tricky if you want to leave out X11 etc. though, 
firstboot for typical users should run in X, but it should be possible 
to do similar things in text mode too :-)
-- 
Pekka Pietikainen