Christopher McCrory wrote:
>
> Hello...
>
> Jeff Lane wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> >
> >> It can be removed from base w/o problem. I've done so. There are some other
> >> things that would be nice to be able to remove (like mouseconfig), but which
> >> break the installer if they're taken out.
>
> This is true. Have you, or anyone else, done a test to see what the
> _absolute_ minimum package listing for 'base' is?
> min: no daemons , no network, no X, no compiler.
> ? ? ?
>From ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/base/comps:
This is the list of stuff that redhat 6.2 installs in all cases (there
is not way to deselect these packages during the install)
1 Base {
basesystem
!alpha: mkbootdisk
linuxconf
gd
ldconfig
chkconfig
ntsysv
mktemp
setup
setuptool
filesystem
MAKEDEV
SysVinit
alpha: aboot
i386: apmd
ash
at
authconfig
bash
bc
bdflush
binutils
bzip2
console-tools
cpio
cracklib-dicts
cracklib
crontabs
dev
diffutils
e2fsprogs
ed
sparc: ethtool
eject
etcskel
file
fileutils
findutils
gawk
gdbm
getty_ps
gmp
gpm
gnupg
grep
groff
gzip
hdparm
info
initscripts
alpha: isapnptools
i386: isapnptools
kbdconfig
kernel
kernel-utils
i386: ld.so
sparc: ld.so
less
ldconfig
i386: libc
glib
glibc
kudzu
libstdc++
libtermcap
i386: lilo
logrotate
losetup
(lang ja_JP): locale-ja
mailcap
mailx
man
!alpha: mkinitrd
sparc: genromfs
mingetty
modutils
mount
mouseconfig
mt-st
ncompress
ncurses
net-tools
newt
passwd
pam
pciutils
i386: kernel-pcmcia-cs
procmail
procps
sparc: prtconf
psmisc
popt
pump
pwdb
quota
raidtools
readline
redhat-logos
redhat-release
rootfiles
rpm
sash
sed
setserial
sendmail
shadow-utils
sh-utils
sparc: silo
slang
slocate
sparc64: sparc32
stat
sysklogd
tar
rmt
termcap
textutils
time
timeconfig
tmpwatch
utempter
util-linux
vim-minimal
vim-common
vixie-cron
anacron
which
zlib
sparc: perl
sparc: tcsh
}
Quite a few of these are definitely not always needed. However, I
suppose that they were put here because otherwise people who don't know
better might not install them and then start bugging the mailing lists
with questions about why commands in the manual don't work (for example,
IIRC the manual uses linuxconf to walk through network config, so if it
isn't installed people will get confused).
I think that they should provide something like "expert" mode where only
the packages without which the system couldn't boot are installed by
default, and everything else is selectable. However, it should be made
clear that this should only be used by people who know what they're
doing.
Oh well, I'm going back to lurking :)
-Victor Shnayder
http://www.princeton.edu/~shnayder/
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