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.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2003-July/msg00569.html
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. Those interested could probably go back and forth a few times on what minimal should be "sanely" including and then make a worthwhile bugticket entry...saving some Red Hat developer time to be spent on some higher priority issues. If there is some obvious consensus from the obviously technically literate people who have a need for minimal install as to how to fix the current minimal package list, I doubt their collective best-effort opinions would be completely ignored. But repeating the "one guy wanting one package in/out of minimal" scenario X number of times isn't going to move anything forward. And of course..submitted patches would probably even less ignored then a consensus best effort essay on the matter.
-jef"put up or..."spaleta