Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 122908
Really minimal Installation
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:42 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Fedora Core 2 has the option minimal installation that installs packages suited for small routers and firewalls. I think it would be good to have an option to install only those packages that are needed to start the system. that will make the fedora installation process highly customizable. I like the idea behind gentoo. Build the system that suits yuor needs. Why not borrow that idea and implement it in Fedora? Now I can delete those unnecessary packages by hand, but this is complicated process. I think it's not too difficult to implement this feature. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Start the minimal installation Additional info:
Fedora is not a "build from source" distribution. If you have concrete specific changes to be made to help make a more minimal installation possible, feel free to file those or discuss them on fedora-devel-list (where the "more minimal" discussion comes up every month or so, but then no one has actual concrete suggestions for getting there).
I have some concrete changes that could be made to make the Fedora "Base System" installation much more minimal, but I do not want to file ~20 reports. Could you give me someone who I can contact with a list of packages that should *not* be installed by default as part of the Base System? Or can I just list them here? Probably it would be worth reopening this bug report then ;) I will soon be on vacations, but after I will find some time (maybe also before, depens on how fast I hear from you). This also happens with fedora 7 so it would be worth changing the version to it.