Call for a real Minimal install, remove the bloat!

[Ken Snider]

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Hans Eric Sandström wrote:
| These are the packages I removed after doing a minimal install:
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| # rpm -e apmd aspell aspell-en attr autofs comps dump gnupg hotplug
| isdn4k-utils jfsutils kudzu lftp libwvstreams lrzsz minicom nano parted
| pcmcia-cs rdate system-config-mouse system-config-network-tui setserial
| sendmail specspo star statserial up2date usbutils wireless-tools wget wvdial
| yp-tools ypbind yum irda-utils
|
| I could argue for keeping yum/up2date but I really would like to have apt-rpm
| instead. One of the package managers (up2date/you or apt-get) is needed to
| make it easy to add/update packages later.

I believe you could do this fairly easily using Kickstart and just minusing
out the packages you don't want. We do this in-house for RHEL to geta
"minimal" server install, it should be trivial to do for FC as well.

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Ken Snider
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