minimum F22/F23 installation requirements

[Pete Travis]

On Mar 21, 2015 4:07 PM, "Felix Miata" <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Is there a list anywhere of what packages are required to get any session
to
> proceed beyond crash notices? Out of more than a dozen, probably more than
> twice that, of F22 & Rawhide installations, I've only ever seen what KF
> desktop looks like on one, and that on the slowest system on which I have
> either installed, an Athlon XP 2000+.
>
> I'm not interested in having anything more than the bare minimum, plus
> Konsole, Konq, Kmix and Ksnapshot. The only "k" groupinstall I"ve found,
> kde-desktop', wants to add 362 packages to the 112 KDE/KDF packages
already
> installed, among them bluedevil, bluez, kamera, kdegames-minimal, kmail,
> kontact, multiple NetworkManager leaves, dmraid, firewalld, ghostscript,
> bazillions of python*, speech-dispatcher, lvm2 and many other packages,
all
> inconsistent with minimalism, and unlikely that I'd ever use on purpose.
>
> On the latest, I left the screen just sitting after closing the crash
> windows. Eventually the locker tried to start, so now my screen's center
is
> covered with illegible (text in some tiny fraction of what I can see
without
> a magnifier) syslogd messages. Switching to a tty to login, I get a
> continuous flood of syslogd messages about the locker that makes killing
> startkde tough.
> --
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> words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
>
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>
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> _______________________________________________

Afaik - and I sincerely hope to be corrected if I am wrong - the closest
thing to an 'official' system requirements list resides in the Release
Notes.  As an F22 tester, I hope you would send some signal to the docs
team if you observe higher requirements than those stated for the previous
release.

--Pete
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