i did a network install and choose 'custom', then deselected everything, pressed next
i got to the next menu of installation and left these to default: - no X - no suggestions - basic doc still on - truly minimal was off but, i ended up with x libraries, fonts, etc... so i dug a bit deeper as to why and looked at the ddebug.log file: afaict dracut seems to require plymouth, and mageia-gfxboot-theme seems to be there no matter what option i choose from the summary, it seems it was already installed before the summary. thing is, without a full kickstart (which i don't want to, i'd like to keep doing partitioning manually, but kickstart seems not to do the interactive requests), i can't really make a minimal system to begin with... for this release, if at all possible, i'd still like to get a bit smaller for minimal setups, and like to present a nongraphic grub by default when X is unselected, and also have no need for gfxboot or plymouth when i don't have a graphic grub (even though this isn't the same) furthermore, if i'm installing without X the default runlevel target seems to still be the graphic one, and not the multi-user one... perhaps it's possible to have this as alternatives or something? which could be set by the CAT_X thingie? one installing one package and the other installing the other package?
