On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:04:10PM +0100, A.J. Werkman wrote: > I will try this. Have already spend some time in figuring out the structure > of the comps-file. > > The thing I don't know is what are the entry points that anaconda uses in > the comps-file. To what group definition does anaconda point to, if you > don't select any packages for instance. > > Koos. > I don't know all of the details of the comps.xml, but I know some: - the group "core" is always installed, along with all packages marked "mandatory" - all groups marked with <default>true</default> are selected by default but it they also have <uservisible>true</uservisible> you can see them and unselect them This adds a lot of unnecessary packages that cannot be disabled from anaconda (but can be disabled in a kickstart file), e.g. the group "dialup" is selected by default, but uservisible is set to false. - groups related to the installed languages are also installed (e.g. look for dutch-support in comps.xml) There is also a section <grouphierarchy> which determines where all the groups show up. David Jansen
