On Friday 12 January 2007 10:34, seth vidal wrote:
okay this is insane. This is a server install. Let's have a
single cd of
almost nothing.
A server install should be @Core, openssh-server, yum and that's pretty
much it.
Enough to get networking up and nothing else. After that the admin can
install the components they need for the service the server will provide
and be done with it.
no apache
no django
no rails
no tftpserver
no anything
ultra-clean - as servers should be. Then when you install a service
package you can enable the service and you know that your server is
setup properly: Only things you need are enabled.
While I totally see value in this, and this is the way I usually set things
up, why couldn't the (stripped down) @core, openssh-server openssh-clients,
yum, and maybe lftp or links or something to hit web pages be the default
install if you just click next/next/next. However having these packages on
the CD and clickable at install time does add some value, you could pick at
install time to just ask for apache and get what it needs, or just ask for
mysql and get what it needs. Having them on the CD doesn't mean that they
will all be installed by default.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora