Features for FC4

Vano Beridze vano.beridze at silkroad.ge
Fri Nov 12 15:32:56 UTC 2004


Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:34:50 +0300, Vano Beridze
><vano.beridze at silkroad.ge> wrote:
>  
>
>>I know this was discussed many times but I still want to know if
>>it's possible to have a minimal install of fedora.
>>    
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>
>Sure its possible... feel free to take a look at the comps.xml file
>that defines package groups. This has repeatedly come up, but noone in
>the community who expresses interest has actually done the work to
>submit an atlernative comps.xml for testing that creates a better
>"minimum".  In the past, the issue as died in a long long thread of
>what different people expect in a minimal install and end up bitching
>back and forth over specific packages. I have NEVER seen a community
>member interested in the minimal install idea actually offer an
>editted comps.xml file for testing. And thats exactly what this is
>going to take. Someone interested to sit down and go through the
>comps.xml file groupings and re-arrange things and offer the new
>comps.xml file for testing, that creates a better minimum but leaves
>the desktop/workstation/server install types unaffected. Until there
>is an alterative comps.xml that other people in the community can
>rebuild isos with and do test installs with, there is no more to
>discuss.
>
>  
>

Thank you jef.
Now I know where to start.

Should I take comps.xml from upcoming core 4 test 1 or get it from 
somewhere else?

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Vano Beridze
Software Developer
Silk Road Group S.A.





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