[Mageia-dev] Minimal mageia install

[Bruno Cornec]

AL13N said on Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:27:46PM +0100:

> Op maandag 7 januari 2013 15:39:30 schreef Eatdirt:
> > On 10/23/2012 02:53 PM, Bruno Cornec 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.
> > 
> > +1
> > I agree with this, we have some "bugs" in package dependencies. Please,
> > don't hesitate to report them on bugzilla for the next bugfest!
> > 
> > We should also try to fix them. I reported this one months ago, Colin
> > ???? :)))
> > 
> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7960
> > 
> 
> i'm always up for lowering the minimum install.
> 
> a while ago, i did some work on that, but they are not easy.
> in particular the X libs are pretty difficult to get out.
> 

I don't know who did that great job, but I'd like to congratulate this
community, as with the beta of Mageia 3 I'm now able to install a very
minimal distro for a firewall with 340 packages "only" without doing any
urpme in my postinstall script !! Very happy about that, please keep up
the good work !

Greetings,
Bruno.
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