Attention, dependency fighters

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/09/2012 01:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:12:50AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> firewalld isn't in the minimal comps groups. However, it's pulled in
>>> by anaconda, see pyanaconda/install.py:
>>>      # anaconda requires storage packages in order to make sure the target
>>>      # system is bootable and configurable, and some other packages in order
>>>      # to finish setting up the system.
>>>      packages = storage.packages + ["authconfig", "firewalld"]
>> Why do anaconda dependencies end up in the minimal install ? That
>> shouldn't really be necessary, right ? It has always bugged me the we
>> end up with anaconda on the installed system when installing from a live
>> cd.
> The storage packages are going to be needed for the system to boot.
>
> Anaconda could probably add some smarts to remove authconfig if it wasn't
> pulled in by anything in the selected comps, but I'm not sure it'd be worth
> the special logic -- we might as well just put it in @core (even though it's
> not super-tiny).
>
> Firwealld I don't know about, though. If anaconda sets up the firewall using
> firewalld but then doesn't install it, will the old iptables scripts load
> the configuration? It'd be nice if it could, because firewalld is *another*
> big change that it'd be nice to have a reasonable back-out plan for.
>
>
>

You might want to remove plymouth from the minimal install since it does 
not make sense having it there anyway

JBG