[Mageia-dev] Minimal mageia install

[Olivier Blin]

Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec at hp.com> wrote:
>> Helo,
>>
>> I'm in the process of redeploying automatically my firewall machine,
>> using Mageia. For that I'd like to have a very minimal install.
>>
>> However, I'm ending up with 580 packages, among them a lot of X11
>> content, whereas I want a text base install only.
>>
>> If I try to remove some of them, I end up having to remove basesystem
>> which isn't an option.
>>
>> So why is libdrakx-kbd-mouse mandatory e.g. in basesystem ?

libdrakx-kbd-mouse is required by drakxtools-backend, which is required
for bootloader-utils, pulled by kernel (required to build initrd).
But this one is not too bad.

>> Another question is I could urpme lib64xrandr2 (and erase as a
>> consequence 26 packages, none of them being in my list).
>> Why did they came on my install first ??

Which packages did this uninstall?

> Suggests?
> There is an option to not use them

That's more complicated than that.

A big issue to me is the following dep chain:
dracut -> plymouth -> desktop-common-data -> xdg-utils -> xprop -> libx11

You can test some of the issues by just doing this:
mkdir chroot-minimal-cauldron
urpmi --no-suggests --root ./chroot-minimal-cauldron basesystem urpmi

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Olivier Blin - blino