Minimal Install Guidelines

[dan]

Philip Rowlands wrote:
> 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.)
> 
> 
Yes, it'd be nice to see something like that, a dependency list of some 
sort, in the same manner in which we have a comps.xml, haha.

Well, I appreciate your time.  I'm attempting a kickstart with @Base and 
@Core, with a few packages missing.  We'll see how it goes.  I'll report 
back later.

Thanks
-dant