Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Gene C.]

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 15:19, Gene C. wrote:
> On Monday 08 December 2003 15:25, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm at redhat.com) said:
> > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > Note that Red Hat hasn't even shipped a kernel that supported that
> > > > box for multiple releases (since 7.3). I'm not sure that scaling
> > > > back the requirements that much is something that fits the model
> > > > of always moving forward with new technology.
> > >
> > > Huh?  Sure we have.  You can use the BOOT kernel if you don't mind
> > > missing a few pieces.  :-)
> >
> > ... and having it configured with different built-ins, etc. If we
> > went this route, we'd want a generic kernel.
> >
> > > Moving technology forward doesn't HAVE to mean being in a race with
> > > memory, cpu, and disk producing companies.  We want to scale small
> > > as well as large, and I'm not strictly opposed to making this
> > > available if we can figure out how to do it without making life
> > > significantly harder for us.
> >
> > To scale smaller generally requires changing the default applications,
> > which leads you down to including X versions of everything.
>
> Actually, I believe that some of the problem with a minimal install is
> incorrect packaging.  Doing a "minimal" install, you still get XFree86
> installed (including XFree86-devel and a whole bunch of other devel
> packages).  For a system which does not configure X and is intended to be
> minimal, this does not make sense to me.


OOPS!!

My mistake. I just grep'ed /root/install.log and noticed all of the "devel" 
packages.  I should have read it more closely!!  Those were for packages 
available BUT NOT installed!

Sorry!
-- 
Gene