Call for a real Minimal install, remove the bloat!

Hans Eric Sandström hes at xinit.se
Mon Mar 15 08:25:36 UTC 2004


On Sunday March 14, 2004 10:35 PM, "João" wrote:
-SNIP-
> Your doc-package is a good idea, but I guess not so much people would like
it
>
> Then all what you put in has its dependencies and are automaticall
installed.
> So lets say you want KDE, then all needed packages are installed. Nothing
> more nothing less
>
> For me that is a very clever idea - and abstract.
>
> But I do not know if this is comparable with LINUX philosophy because most
> people use it as a workstation.

Hopefully they will use the workstation install option (not minimal) which
would
include the -docs packages.

But thinking about it some more.. one could probably extend on the script I
use
to keep all my servers in sync. Basically I have two types of servers normal
and
devel servers. I use the included script to switch between the two
configurations.
The script is not my suggested solution, it's just something I've been using
for a
while. The script functionality (Install configurations) should probably go
inte the
meta package managers (apt/yum/up2date) in some way, maybe:
# apt-get configure <Server|Workstation|Whatever...>

/Hans Eric
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