From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050516 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The text mode installer is installing more packages than the graphical installer when trying to make a minimal install. Either the text mode should assume you want minimal install after unselecting all the packages, or it should have a Minimal install checkbox like the graphical installer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install in graphical mode and choose "Minimal" install, results in roughly 650 megs worth of packages. All on disc 1. 2. Install in text mode and unselect all packages (since there is no "Minimal" option) and you get roughly 720 megs of packages. And you need to use Disc 4. Additional info:
What language did you install in?
Created attachment 116809 [details] anaconda-ks file from Graphical install
In both cases I used "English (English)".
Created attachment 116815 [details] anaconda-ks file from text install The text based installer selects a few different packages than the graphical installer. In the %packages section of anaconda-ks here is what text does differently than graphics mode. It adds: @ dialup @ java kernel-devel And removes: @ language-support
I don't know if this bug is still relevant. We're now using yum as the backend for package installation in anaconda. In the text and graphical installation modes, users are no longer given the option of Minimal, Desktop, Everything, or whatever installs. There is a default package set selected and as users enable other groups, yum figures out what else is needed. That said, I did two default installs from rawhide. One using the graphical interface and one using the text interface. The anaconda-ks.cfg and install.log files created by accepting the defaults in the installer are the same. I compared the output of 'rpm -qa' from both install runs and they are identical.