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

[Thierry Vignaud]

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.

> thing is, without a full kickstart (which i don't want to, i'd like to keep
> doing partitioning manually, but kickstart seems not to do the interactive
> requests), i can't really make a minimal system to begin with...

you can still do a semi automatic install.