[RULE] New attempt at "minimal install", now using Fedora Core 3, Release Candidate 5

[M. Fioretti]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 20:56:07 PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz
(rpaiz at simpaticus.com) wrote: 
> Hey...
> 
> I would appreciate it if as many people as possible could take a look at
> the update I just posted [1], since I got stuck on a synaptics
> dependency and it's making my life difficult. Although I've had only a
> little time to work on it, RC5 is only down to about 435MB right now
> since roughly 40MB more stuff is stuck due to synaptics.
> 
> Some text, better package separations, and a new package list are all
> posted together. ANY SUGGESTIONS WELCOME. I can't delete the xorg*
> packages, the cups packages, and quite a few others because rhpl
> requires synaptics, and synaptics in turn requires a bunch of other
> stuff. Very annoying. At least 40MB worth of annoying.

Semi-random comments:

xorg (ie kdrive, IIRC?) and cups are needed for desktop usage, so at
least in that case we don't want to remove them

what about removing right after install, with the vacuum script or
similar, all the unneeded cups/foomatic drivers?

Marco

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