[Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

You-Cheng Hsieh yochenhsieh at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 09:31:03 CET 2012


2012/3/22 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
> On 22 March 2012 00:30, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
>> i did a network install
>>
>> and choose 'custom', then deselected everything, pressed next
>>
>> i got to the next menu of installation and left these to default:
>>
>>  - no X
>>  - no suggestions
>>  - basic doc still on
>>  - truly minimal was off
>>
>> but, i ended up with x libraries, fonts, etc...
>
> note that having a couple x11 package is not installing x11.
> I've made the minimal install quite a lot smaller.
>
> We still have issues with suggests that makes installation explodes.
> I've reports some bugs but maintainers just don't care.
> See eg: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4357 that got
> reaffected to me because the maintainer doesn't care about
> bloating the install
> This particular one isn't about minimal install but about gnome install
> but the underlying issue will bloats any minimal install + light desktop
> + _one_ gtk+ application.
>
Both gnome-keyring and task-gnome are maintained by nobody, could you
modify the spec and close the bug?


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