Dan wrote:
Is there any quality control in fedora any more? Trying to set up a server. During install i unselected gnome and X11. Clearly, some package requiring these was still selected, so anaconda installed both gnome and X11. Now I'm trying to remove gnome, x11, and all the useless crap I wont ever need on a server (synaptics?) when I reached this point: grub required gtk2. Why the hell does a boot manager, grub, require a graphical toolkit? The only way I could remove gtk2 was to remove grub. Example, to now install grub: Installing: grub i386 0.97-13 fedora 489 k Installing for dependencies: fedora-logos noarch 6.0.98-3.fc7 fedora 5.0 M gtk2 i386 2.10.13-1.fc7 updates 6.8 M gtk2-engines i386 2.10.2-2.fc7 updates 413 k redhat-artwork i386 7.0.0-9.fc7 fedora 6.1 M WHY?!? Am I the only person that finds this completely and utterly absurd? Another issue was between smartmontools and usermode. I dont want or need usermode installed on a server. Yet, I cannot remove usermode without also removing smartmontools. Example: putting smartmontools back on the box: Installing: smartmontools i386 1:5.37-3.fc7 updates 301 k Installing for dependencies: hal i386 0.5.9-8.fc7 fedora 442 k hal-info noarch 20070516-2.fc7 fedora 41 k kbd i386 1.12-21 fedora 1.0 M pm-utils i686 0.99.3-6.fc7 fedora 26 k usermode i386 1.92-0.fc7 updates 189 k Now, I realise people say "fedora isnt for production environments" - which this isnt. But grub requring gtk2, and smartmontools requiring usermode? These are just silly dependency issues... I guess I'll probably have to file some bugs in bugzilla. Hi Dan, with the smallest hard drive you can buy 120 GB, why are you trying to make F7 look like Red Hat 6? Load the smallest F7 with no language or applications packages. Then goto /etc/rc.d/init.d and tell it to not start X.
Karl
