Feature Request : canned minimum

[Beartooth Sciurivore]

	Didn't anaconda use to include an option to do a minimum install?

	Iirc that there was such a thing, I'm sure there were reasons for 
dropping it. (I can imagine one : my minimum may not be your minimum.)

	However, with half a dozen variations on the sub-notebook 
computer coming on the market, there is bound to be an increased need.

	Case in point : I have F8 installed, booting,, and connecting on 
an EeePC with a 4 GB hard drive -- using, admittedly, install to an 8 GB 
thumbstick, helped along by a 4 GB SD memory card. 

	However, I'm going to have to do a *lot* of pruning to get it 
down to something usable -- an inordinately tedious job, even with pirut. 
I keep hitting dependency hells, and sometimes consequences that would 
remove something I need to keep -- such as saving my gnome-session from 
login to login.

	Wouldn't it be easier, for those who try to do the like, to start 
from bones as bare as even the experts could get them, and add in 
necessities -- rather than the way it is now? 

	I don't really need to know all that gnome-session depends on, or 
all that depends on it. I just need to know how much space it will cost 
to add it and its dependencies if I *don't* have it, and so on for other 
apps, till I can tell whether I'll be able to run Fedora at all on a 
given new tiny machine.

	I don't know whether the feature is feasible, much less why or 
why not; but I'd sure be glad of *some* easier way.

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