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

John Balcaen mikala at mageia.org
Thu Mar 22 16:01:22 CET 2012


2012/3/22 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
[...]
> But in a minimal install it
> should ignore the Suggests, no?

By default urpmi install suggests, so if they are available they're
going to be installed.


> I think we should have something which tracks these things
> automatically.
>
> Meaning:
> - a way to see the dependency chains over time
>  (e.g. something which logs it per day)
> - a way to see the size of various "targets" over time
>  (e.g. KDE, GNOME, XFCE, minimal)
> - an email when the size changes compared to previous day
>  (e.g. new dependency, or maybe 100MB of documentation in some package)
Luc did a similar work regarding that between mga1 & mga2 focus indeed
on  kde (package & size), there's a bug report on it (but i don't
remember the number immediatly.




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