Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > We had a large rant over that sometime ago, and I can only hope that it > finally gets added back, as you suggest. Ric At first I thought it a bad idea that it went away, but it turned out that it wasn't a real problem to install the few pkgs that I was missing after doing the install with "server" and "software-devel" categories selected. In FC4 the "all" option installed quite a few unused pkgs that caused conflicts that needed my attention. It often wasn't easy to determine that I could in fact blow away all the conflicting pkgs without any effect to what I used. The trick to doing clean, minimal, installs is just keep good notes from the last install and have a shell script that does the work of customizing the installed Fedora. I've been tracking Fedora since FC4 and installing 5 computers here with a clean install isn't all that hard. Just do it once, write the patch up shell script (including the 20 or so 'yum -y install XXXX' pkgs that I need but aren't included with the default.) One big advantage to clean installs done this way is 1) you are sure to have clean identical installs across the various computers 2) you get to bury your old mistakes where you mangled some of the /etc/ config files because you didn't yet understand the full issues when you did it the first time. (A good buddy once pointed out to me that it took him 3 from-scratch installs before he felt comfortable he didn't mess something up.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Hints for IPv6 on FC6 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/fedora/ipv6-tunnel.html
