2008/10/14 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com:
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 00:45 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
Is it possible to design these sets for anaconda without recreating a boot image, but only e.g. pointing it to an external repo that only contains comps information?
Even working with anaconda and doing your own spins with revisor it's not easy to get a slim F9 install. It's almost impossible to shed the gtk/xorg toolchain because anaconda pulls it in.
I think you'd have a lot of "fun" trying to get the UI right for your suggestion,
Other distros I use offer this ("desktop install", "server install" radio buttons) instead of the current anaconda sets, and hide the comps groups behind an 'advanced' option. The server install does _not_ install X.
And on a different email, Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
Though a Fedora installation with yum + rpm isn't "truely minimal", it's the minimal install to keep an installation usable/maintainable.
Which is useful to some, too fat for others.
Well, to me a "no-yum" installation is an ignorable extremal singular case.
The embedded devices crowd uses this kind of install ("no yum, no rpm even") quite a bit, and they have a lot of overlap with the "headless server" crowd in interests. So if you don't ignore that requirement, you get a larger community of users/developers with a significant overlap with your interests :-)
Even if each group thinks that the other is crazy... the overlap is significant, and both can feed off each other.
Note! I am not arguing that such "no yum" option needs to be available from the GUI anaconda installer. That'd be pointless. I just say that it should be possible and at least somewhat supported via anaconda in combination with revisor or pungi.
Right now it does not seem to be.
cheers,
m