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. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
