On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 16:38 Asia/Jerusalem, Jef Spaleta wrote:
Bill Anderson wrote:
Wouldn't it be great if the Minimal Install option meant what it said? Who seriously believe NIS belongs on a firewall?? Minimal states it is for such things as firewalls
File it as a bug! Or maybe you want to step up and be part of a worthwhile discussion as to re-working of the existing minimal install option. Since it seems its really a more a matter of how the packages are grouped and which groups a minimal install actually installs..its more a policy issue than an expert coding issue. This seems like something we can have a nice lovely little community discussion about...instead of just poking repeatedly at the anaconda maintainer to remove this one package here...or this one other package..or maybe add this one package to minimal. And its certainly a better idea to fix the current minimal install offering than adding another minimal minimal layer beyond the "broken" minimal.
It was never my (or anyone else's) intention to poke repeatedly at any engineer or person with regard to this. I don't know why you keep bringing this topic up with a negative connotation. What I did in fact intend to was maybe initiate some "nice lovely community discussion" about the packages included in the minimal install. I think there is room to work on it, and we can definitely have certain things removed from there.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2003-July/msg00569.html
The point about windows xp is very valid. I barely ever use windows but ive heard the same thing. In RH anyhowm, I'm sure many of us are doing a minimal install and then starting to remove things, right off the bat.
I think its pretty clear there is room for volunteers on in impacting how the current minimal install behaves. If your serious about "fixing" the current minimal offering, I suggest the interested people make a stab at drawing up a consensus replacement package list, with some discussion as to why you are dropping each package.
I'm on board is anyone else interested.
--Jack