minimal install

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sat Oct 29 18:35:02 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 12:41 -0400, Gene C. wrote:
> OK, I realize that the installer's package selection is a "work in progress" 
> or just a "placeholder" untill the real package selector is available but ...
> 
> I thought that de-selecting everything (all package groups) would get me a 
> minimal install ... nope, more like a "default" install with about 2GB of 
> packages instead of the expected ~600MB ... I got metacity, lots of gnome, 
> etc. ... like I said, it looks like a default install.
> 
> Is the intent that this will be the minimal install?

No... that screen just doesn't do a lot for really deselecting stuff in
the base right now.  I noticed it at one point and decided it wasn't
worth dealing with until the real screen is done.  Which I'm hopefully
going to make some good progress on this week.

Jeremy




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