How does one get a clean installation of Fedora?

[Digimer]

On 29/07/13 09:03, lee wrote:
> Martin Skjöldebrand <shieldfire at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sunday 28 July 2013 23.45.40 lee wrote:
>>> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> writes:
>>>> lee writes:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> how does one get a clean installation of Fedora?  "Clean" means that
>>>>> only those packages are installed that are actually needed and only
>>>>> those services are running that are actually needed.
>>>>
>>>> Very easy:
>>>>
>>>> Step 1: figure out what packages and services you need.
>>>> Step 2: install just those packages and services that you need.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the broken dependencies seem to prevent step 2 ---
>>> otherwise I could simply remove unneeded packages.
>>
>> I believe this kind of situation is why the Gentoo, and later, Arch
>> distributions were created. There you seriously micro manage your distribution
>> and install only what you want and in exactly the way you want.
>
> That's how it should be.  It's nice to have the option to just install
> things from packages and have them working right away, but when that
> leads to too many things installed and running that aren't needed
> without a choice, the question comes up what you rather spend your time
> with: installing just what you need or trying to figure out how to get
> rid of what you don't need.

Different distros serve different needs. It's impossible for one distro 
to suit all use-cases. If you really really need to minimize the 
packages on you computer, then maybe Fedora isn't the right choice. And 
that's ok, that is exactly why Arch linux and it's contemporaries are 
there for.

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