Bug 89747
| Summary: | RFE: really a minimal installation | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | acount closed by user <a1459440> |
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 1 | CC: | jslivko, mitr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-11-10 21:26:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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With kickstart you can select '@Core' and save some space, but in general we do not intend on reducing the size of the minimal interactive installation. It is a reasonable size considering the sizes and costs of disk drives over the past few years. The 'RULE' project is addressing running Red Hat Linux on smaller footprint machines and may have some ideas to help you customize an installation. well, when I speak about a minimal installation is because it has minus maintenance and it is more secure by default. And you avoid to make a personal configuration and/or to apply a lot of paches. This is a very necessary feature in a lots of environments. I needed this one last year when I was implemented a 25 snort systems with rh linux. And I feel that the next time will have to do the same operation. It was only an idea for to not waste the time. -thank you- What about taking the approach Debian did when creating their distribution, install only what is necessary and leave everything else upto the user to install later. This is generally the most secure way to do things, I find. Maybe it's about time RedHat took the same approach. The problem with this approach is that you either end up a) installing X always which pisses people off or b) have to use a text-mode program which is a loss in many respects So let the user decide whether they want to install X or not? You could have 2 options in the installer: Base Install - Text Mode or Base Install - XWindows Mode. You then still have to reproduce all of the infrastructure that currently exists for after installation. This isn't something that is currently interesting IMHO. Why not let the community decide for themselves? Hello I'm a software developer and I'd like to have everything installed under my control. I don't know how to use kickstart installation and I would be very happy to do it with usual installation. I want to have only those packages that are needed for starting the system and rpm to install other packages. I really admire the approach gentoo has. unfortunately gentoo is slower than redhat for java development. sorry for being little bit offtopic. I think it's really annoying to have installed by default packages such as ypbind,yp-tools,sendmail and many more that are not needed for me. Again it's not a problem of a space it's matter of having only those packages that you need and with their respective manual if you would like so. If now minimal installation installs the distribution suited for small firewall, routers then call it firewall/router distribution. And please make a real minimal distribution. Linux is about choice is not it? |
Description of problem: There are too much packages at _minimal_ installation and it take a lot of space 490MB. I would like a _really mininal_ for firewall/routers.... and with the possibility of doesn't install documentation(/usr/share/doc/) with the rpm option "--excludedocs" -thanks- Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.- 2.- 3.- Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: