minimal install too minimal

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Mar 18 14:05:12 UTC 2010


Steve Grubb (sgrubb at redhat.com) said: 
> On Wednesday 17 March 2010 04:03:08 pm Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > The minimal case is "special" because it is lacking in a number of
> > > > packages, such as the NetworkManager stack, which is Fedora's preferred
> > > > method of managing the network.
> > > 
> > > It was not the intent of the minimal platform install project to have a
> > > non- functioning network. It used to work, so this would be a
> > > regression.
> > 
> > "this used to work" define this.
> 
> This has been a feature since Fedora 11. There was a test day announcement:
> 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/olpc/2009-April/001178.html
> 
> No one reported that the network was not working or yum was not able to 
> install additional packages or updates.

The network service has been disabled by default since Fedora 9, so it's
not as if something has changed here. The minimal install should be working
just as well as it always has.

Bill


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