On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 04:35:03PM -0400, Andrew Lofthouse wrote: > Fedora were only about 400-500 MB. So, here's the question: why does the > minimal install include all of these extra packages that are not necessary > for a text-only system? And why are the printing packages always installed? This has been discussed before on the fedora-devel list. In short, narrowing the list down to minimal-but-functional-and-still-fulfilling-all-deps is a non-trivial problem and no one has really put in the time to working it out. To help, look at os/Fedora/base/comps.xml in the development branch, and work out how the Core and Base groups could be narrowed down (without breaking things). -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
