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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 23 March 2012 17:00, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
> thanks for the explanations, i really appreciate this, it seems logical,
> somehow, except maybe what i'm coming back to:
>
> mageia-gfxboot-theme is pulled by installer? how does that work?
>
> is this really required? or is this something that's somehow done in the
> graphic installer?
>
> i mean, i didn't select graphic grub, i chose text-grub specifically. and
> somehow during the choosePackages step, the mageia-gfxboot-theme is
> automatically selected...
>
> this is the packages that's adding via extra dep and suggests, most of the
> stuff...
>
> where can i find the code that is responsible for this, so i can try and fix it?

we preselect it here so that it got installed early:
http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/any.pm?revision=3532&view=markup

because else it'll be automatically pulled later, adding a one package (or more)
wait later:
http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/bootloader.pm?revision=3581&view=markup

just look mageia-gfxboot-theme

Of course, that's OK for 99% of our users but for those manually
selecting text lilo.
That's a trade off: enforcing waiting for packages installation after all
the other package installation so that a couple users can not have
the bootsplash installed and select lilo or having a couple users
unhappy
BWe could not preselect

> about firewall, perhaps it's possible to just include iptables, but set policy
> on DROP incoming? shorewall seems a bit over the top...

we configure shorewall, not iptables.

> but, if summary isn't completed, you can't boot into it, wrt bootloader? so
> firewall seems useless for that...? what is the rationale behind this?

In the old days we let poeple choose the security level early then we
automatically install & set  up the firewall accordingly.
Later the security choice was moved to the summary and security level
number was reduced from to 3 (see msec or security::level)
But since the default security level is 1 ("standard"), we automatically
install the firewall anyway.
For years.