starting Fedora Server SIG
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 13:54:23 UTC 2008
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>
>> >> Not so bad - 145 packages, 110 MB
>> >
>> > I tried
>> >
>> > yum --installroot=/mnt/tmp/ install '@core' '@base'
>> > -> 416 Packages, 257 M.
>> >
>> > and it is less right, X is brought in, and also qt qt-X11.
>> Should
>> > certainly be investigated.
>>
>>
>> That's probably because of LSB compliance. As has been
>> discussed
>> previously, someone needs to split the lsb package in
>> server-side
>> stuff and other stuff (yes that would mean a system that used
>> only the
>> first part would not be fully lsb compliant)
>
>> LSB requests qt?
>
> The LSB Desktop specs[1] requires them.
>
> The LSB Core specs[2] don't.
>
> I'd say this is a badly packaged package, which is in dire need of being
> split ;)
Even on machines where I never run an X display on the console, I often
find it extremely handy to have wireshark-gnome installed and run it via
ssh port-forwarding. Likewise I might want to install VMware server
which needs X libs and perhaps a few other things on a machine that
doesn't run X on the console. And on some other machines that I would
still classify as servers I run a whole desktop environment (or several)
remotely via freenx. Are the packages split so you can easily get the X
libs, fonts, etc., without hardware related components?
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Les Mikesell
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