[Centos] Bad ISO

Greg Knaddison
Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:35:57 -0000

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:49:21 -0800, Troy Engel <tengel@fluid.com>
wrote:
> John Hinton wrote:
> > Now, can somebody tell me why all this printer crapola gets installed
> > even though I choose no GUI and uncheck print services during a custom
> > install? I really do get a bit tired of this. I really hate to say it,
> > but it''s starting to seem just a little bit like .... oh
no... i can''t
> > say winders..
>
> I''ve had it happen now on both RHES4 and CentOS4 -- it
doesn''t stop
> there with printer junk, the "checking dependancies" pulls in a
lot of
> crap that I specifically deselected (kernel-smp-devel comes to mind). Go
> figure - here I thought I knew what I was doing after 10 years.
>
> -te
>

You may be interested in the Fedora Minimal Project.  It''s small, but
Rodolfo is always looking for more feedback if you''d like.  If I
remember correctly, they cleaned ~70MB of unnecessary cruft
dependencies out of the minimal installer in FC2 and the changes
landed for FC3 (and thus RHEL4).

http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/barebones-server-howto.php

Greg