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

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 23:33, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:

> Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 00:30:53 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
> > 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...
> >
> > so i dug a bit deeper as to why and looked at the ddebug.log file:
>
> i looked once more, after the choose packages step:
>
> these are the categories selected:
>
> CAT_MINIMAL_DOCS
> CAT_SYSTEM
> CHARSET"C"
> LOCALES"en"
> LOCALES"_"
> LOCALES"en_US"
> META_CLASS"download"
> TRUE
> USB
> UTF8
>
> this should be:
> man info man-pages eject ldetect harddrake sharutils locales iputils urpmi
> tmpwatch dmidecode ntfs-3g pm-utils numlock lftp mageia-release-Default
>
> + basesystem-minimal at least


> these should result in a selection of 235 packages (i tried to track these
> manually through the rpmsrate file
>
> however, somehow other packages seem to be getting extra installed anyway
> (during the choosePackages step)!
>
> first package being selected is:
>
> - lib64drm_radeon1 ... even in rpmsrate radeon-firmware (the closest thing
> i
> can imagine), needs CAT_X ....
>

Hard to say without the full list
I would guess plymouth got selected or maybe lsl-lib64

plymouth requires libdrm_radeon.so.1
lsb-lib64 rquires lib64mesagl1 which requires lib64dri-drivers which
requires libdrm_radeon.so.1

next:
> - lib64pam0
> - bootsplash
>
> am i missing something, i have the feeling there's another file that has
> effect
> to these stuff?
>

Well all the packages have plenty of dependencies...
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