Minimal Install Guidelines

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, dan wrote:

>IIRC, the manual states that @Base and @Core groups are installed by
>default, however, I believe specific packages can be "removed" from
>those groups, or not installed, by prefixing each package name with a
>"-" under %packagse.  I'm going to try to give this a shot.

Packages can be excluded, but be aware of the
--ignoredeps/--resolvedeps/--ignoremissing flags to %packages, which
decide how anaconda will react to missing dependencies.

It *is* possible to remove some leaf-node packages from @Base and @Core,
but I don't know of a quick'n'easy way to suggest for pruning. (At one
point I had a notion to write a GUI tool for this, but I was befuddled
by the rpm Python libs. Perhaps someone will chime in to point out the
myriad dependency-tracking package management GUIs which already exist.)


Cheers,
Phil