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 -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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