Mauricio Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> AT the Desktop dialog (KDE/GNOME) use "Other" and select minimal
>> desktop...
>
> Speaking about that. This "minimal" install isn't so minimal. I think
> 600MB for a text-only machine and so minimal functionality is way too much.
>
> Do you think it's possible to start a "task force" to search for uneeded
> packages and strip that down to a real minimum? I would be very happy to
> help if that would be interesting.

This is definitely possible - but let's do it for 10.2.  If you can
find a consensus on this new minimal install, I would look closer at
it.

> AFAIK there are other distros that can have KDE/Firefox/OpenOficce/etc
> with the same 600MB (or even less).
>
> Also, looking at my past, Conectiva had a profile called "Minimal" that
> installed 250 or 300 (can't remember for sure) and a "Real Minimal"
> about with 150MB (version 10 released Jul/05/2004). Ok, maybe not a good
> comparison (regarding installed versions), but this kind of minimal is
> what I liked to have (without the need to remove packages manually
> either during or after install). (Ps.: this is not a troll. :)

Let's see whether this is possible with our packages - and still makes
sense, so please define the purpose of "minimal" first,

Andreas
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