Hello:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Amit Saha (droidery(a)gmail.com) said:
> >>By excluding the packages, which I do not want installed is one way
> >>I can think of. This will eliminate the need to specify certain
> >>individual packages, but I might have to explicitly exclude more
> >>packages than I need to explicitly include now.
> >>
> >>Also individual "utilities" like 'rlwrap','screen'
will still have
> >>to be there, since they are either included in a group with other
> >>packages which wouldn't necessarily be useful for a default install.
> >
> >My point is - what usage cases are you trying to hit that require
> >certain utilities, but don't require other ones?
> >
> >i.e., you want gcc, but you want to exclude automake/autoconf/etc? This
> >would be overly limiting, in my opinion.
> >
> >Similarly, insisting on thunderbird but saying that the other utilities
> >might be too much seems a little odd to me.
>
> I agree. The current list of packages is quite subjective in nature
> -- the subject being myself. That was the initial attempt, strictly
> for hobbyistic reasons.
>
> Thunderbird is definitely going out of this spin and so will other
> packages which are there, strictly because they are personal
> favorites. I shall keep you/list updated on the new kickstart file.
> I will also include the umbrella tools like automake,autoconf.
>
> Should I clone the 'comps' repo and write a patch for the
> "Scientific and Engineering" group? This will help me in writing the
> kickstart file as well.
Sounds like a good start, yes.
Please find the patch attached. Does this look good?
The current kickstart looks like [1] which assumes the modified
"Engineering and Scientific" group.
I shall look forward to your comments and will kickstart a discussion
on the fedora-devel soon about this.
[1]
https://bitbucket.org/amitksaha/custom_linux/src/b335cd6564ab/fedora-live...
-Amit