Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Agreed. This is an explanation and a reason I can follow :) I go to > individual selection each time I install to remove packages like most > games and all the fax packages and some more, and to add some packages > which are not marked by standard. But that's me, and I have developed > a habit there :) > This is a fairly advanced activity, and there are better ways to do this. For instance, make two files: one for standard packages you want removed, and one for extra packages you want installed. Then run xargs to execute urpmi for these argument lists after first boot.
Granted, it involves installing and then removing things you don't want, but it's a lot more automated than interactively playing with package selection for every install you do.
