>From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:46 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote: >> This is a spectacular waste of bandwidth. Cannot we assume that EVERYONE >> reconfigures services after install? Don't want it on your hard drive? - >> "rpm -e". >> I could not possibly agree more. >More and more things are getting installed as time goes on I guess my question at this point would be: how does it happen that more and more things are getting installed as time goes on? I'm assuming you mean that for a given configuration, (desktop, workstation, server) there are more bits and bytes in FC3 than FC2 and prior RH releases - which is absolutely true. It seems to me that if you're getting more stuff installed with a given config than you want, what you really need to do is use the customized config where you can pick and choose the bits and bytes you want. If you really want a bare bones system, you can pick minimal from way at the bottom of customized on FC3 and I'll bet you don't get a lot of the stuff like pcmcia-cs and mDNSResponder/howl . Then add just the exact additional packages you want to the minimal config. I guess I don't understand how you expect the Fedora developers to cater more than they already do to what every individual does or doesn't want on their machine . The installer gives you options ranging from minimal to everything as well asdesktop, workstation and server configs - pick one and customize it if you like. But if you choose the everything config and you get some stuff you don't want, how is that anyone's problem but your own? Finally, I guess if you really think this is something that needs fixing, you ought to get to work fixing it. Personally, I'm fine with the paradigm of going with a Fedora-provided config then dropping/adding packages from/to that config. Erich
