Tim: >> But disregarding minimalism, there's still plenty of situations where a >> rather extensive installation won't need various things considered to be >> "required", but actually aren't. Tom Horsley: > For grins, try to remove "cdrecord" on a fedora system. If I have no > CDRW drive, you'd think I could live without it, but the dependencies say > it also has to remove lots of bits of gnome and even decides it has to > remove compiz (I was trying to get rid of excess baggage in a > Xen guest OS when I discovered this one). I've not tried that one, but yes, I've tried to remove a few things that had some strange cascade effects. Please, lets have the OS separate fro user interfaces and from applications and from other things... > Bet you never expected CD recording software was required to make your > windows wiggle :-). ;-) -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
