On Fri, 2005-14-01 at 10:36 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > 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". > > > > Don't pick on the man, he's got a point. More and more things are > getting installed as time goes on, and while some of those are needed > some are bloat. For routers, firewalls, and servers, I routinely remove > nearly 40% of the installed packages... *don't* tell me that all those > packages were needed, that's ridiculous. Questioning the status quo is > always valid, since that's how we make progress. > > If you don't like his thread, ignore it... you have a delete key. But > don't try to shut people up! That's rude, uncalled-for, and against > Fedora's best interests. People like Dave are the ones who actually > speak up and suggest improvements in the OS for future versions, so I > suggest we value every voice we can get. > > And no, we cannot and will not assume that EVERYONE must reconfigure > services after install, damnit. We can and will search for the optimal > package sets for each configuration, because SOME OF US want Fedora to > be as good as possible. > > Sheesh. > > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Good points. In a later post you refer to "comps.xml" I'm not sure what that is, but I will guess it has something to do with the default packages installed when selecting the type of install. I have a question: Does it declare which packages can not be removed from a category during custom install? I wonder if there were enough people interested, would it be possible to either make available additional default install classes. If so maybe options for a router and one for a developers workstation. Off the top of my head, I recall there used to be some kind of utility used to generate a list of packages that could be used for custom package selection during install. If there is still such a feature, would it be possible to have an optional install method where you could use a "Have Disk" type option so people could share custom install configs? This doesn't affect me personally, because I don't mind spending some time picking what I want, but it seems to be a point of contention for some other people.
