On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 11:29:37AM -0000, Fa Be wrote:
>> It will be very beneficial for people if the Fedora project provides
>> the Minimal CD images of Fedora. It can attract more users to Fedora
>> and is very useful for people who have the internt with
>> low-bandwidth. Currently I use Debian due to the lack of Minimal CD
>> of Fedora.
>
> But then you need to add more stuff later, right? Isn't the network
> install + downloading specifically what you want a better option
> anyway?

I agree that it can be very difficult to define "what you need to add
later". Gnome or even a compiler are undesirable on a stripped down
minimal fileserver with Samba capability. Spamassassin may be useful
on a mail server, but is pointless on anything else. Even the
netinstall ISO images are burdened by the frankly unnecessary X based
graphical installer. Anaconda didn't, and shouldn't, need graphical
displays to operate, and that has contributed to a "netinstall.iso" of
nearly 500 MB for Fedora 25. There was a decision made to make the
installer itself much more graphically intense and to invent a new
"spoke and hub" based installation workflow. Unfortunately, if your
initial setup now requires a 500 MB download to get the bootstrap ISO
image with all the graphical components to operate at all, it
convinces me that making the installers so graphical was actually a
hindrance to developers.
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