CentOS - May 2007 - "core" package groups

Hi,

One nice thing I have with Debian is the possibility to have a really 
stripped-down install of things. Let's take an example.

I want a cholesterol-free install of GNOME, I 'apt-get install 
gnome-core' which gives me the bare working minimum of GNOME as a 
starting point, and then I install what I really need. The same thing 
applies for KDE, with 'apt-get install kde-core'.

Having such a thing would be great on CentOS. Currently, 'yum 
groupinstall <group>' tends to install many things.

What do you think?

Niki Kovacs
-- 
Dyslexics have more fnu.

Hi Niki,

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 14:14 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Having such a thing would be great on CentOS. Currently, 'yum 
> groupinstall <group>' tends to install many things.
> 
> What do you think?
Maybe not a full answer to your question, but groups are pretty
sophisticated in that they have a list of mandatory, default, and
optional packages. E.g.:

$ yum groupinfo "GNOME Desktop Environment"
[...]
 Mandatory Packages:
   nautilus
   control-center
   yelp
   gnome-terminal
   gnome-panel
   gnome-applets
   gnome-session
   metacity
 Default Packages:
[...]

-- Daniel