On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 12:12 11/13/2003, you wrote: > >On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > > > > The fedora-minimal install will not necessarily include documentation on > > > all the packages. > > > >Since you brought it up, this is an important point for a "minimal > >install". I definitely want the option of not installing the docs > >directory or the man pages for all selected packages. If I'm building a > >firewall on old hardware, for example, I'll have those things available > >elsewhere (or I can add them later if need be), and I'd much rather have > >the disk space for logging. > > OK... I would be happy to do what you ask for the fedora-minimal install, > since that fits perfectly with our objectives. Now, how do I do that? I don't know much about installer internals, but I assume that the RPMs are installed with the standard rpm command. In that case, I'd expect something like the following: As the user, I'd have a checkbox on the package selection screen for "Exclude documentation". If checked, then the rpm commands that install the selected packages would run with the --excludedocs option. I would think that would be enough to get the job done. Possible? If it can't be done with the Fedora installer, maybe it could be a feature of the RULE installer? -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
