FC5 minimal install includes X(!) and cups

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 16:35 -0400, Andrew Lofthouse wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want a very minimal install of FC5, without any X, etc.  I've installed
> with all the options in the customize package selection area except "base"
> and the install is nearly 1GB!  I've also done an install with everything
> unchecked (including base) and the install size is over 750GB.  Both
> installs also include several xorg packages, ghostscript, etc.  Why??? A
> minimal install shouldn't include all of that extra cruft.  I think that it
> might be due to cups dependencies.  IIRC, previous minimal installs of
> Fedora were only about 400-500 MB.  So, here's the question:  why does the
> minimal install include all of these extra packages that are not necessary
> for a text-only system?  And why are the printing packages always installed?
> This has been a pet-peeve of mine for the last several versions of
> Fedora/Red Hat; printing packages are always installed even if explicitly
> un-selected...

You'd be more likely to get an explanation (and possibly a fix in FC6)
if you brought this up on fedora-devel-list.

Paul.