pure server packages

[Dan Horák]

Hi,

I am slowly creating a list of server packages (or application) that can
be installed without any interference with desktop libraries or other
stuff. The procedure is simple - run "yum install <foo>" in a minimal
installation and see what happens :-) Theoretical way would be to check
the dependency graphs for packages, but own experience is more
interesting.

URL for the list is
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sharkcz/ServersOverview


Dan

[Daniel Mach]

We should define the exact border of what's server and what's desktop 
(at least from FedoraServer perspective).
I suppose that everything what runs on top of X is clear.
But what about the rest?
Dbus, hal, avahi, *Kits and others...
The oldschool servers were definitely able to run without them,
but are we able to draw a line here and really split server not to use 
these packages?

- daniel

On 10/05/2009 05:56 PM, Dan Horák wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I am slowly creating a list of server packages (or application) that can
>  be installed without any interference with desktop libraries or other
>  stuff. The procedure is simple - run "yum install<foo>" in a minimal
>  installation and see what happens :-) Theoretical way would be to check
>  the dependency graphs for packages, but own experience is more
>  interesting.
>
>  URL for the list is
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sharkcz/ServersOverview
>
>
>  Dan
>
>
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>

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Daniel Mach wrote:

>  We should define the exact border of what's server and what's
> desktop
>  (at least from FedoraServer perspective).
>  I suppose that everything what runs on top of X is clear.
>  But what about the rest?
>  Dbus, hal, avahi, *Kits and others...
>  The oldschool servers were definitely able to run without them,
>  but are we able to draw a line here and really split server not to use
>  these packages?
>  
I think it would be a worthwhile effort to make sure we're not drawing in 
desktop-y components upon the install of dbus and *Kits. If they are, i 
don't think it is crazy to see about splitting those packages up more.



-sv