John Hinton wrote:
Tom Brown wrote:
Hi
Installed my first CentOS box last night after coming from Whitebox - This is perhaps me being stupid but on install i opted for 'Custom' install as i prefer minimal and then build as i suit. I went through the list of things to install and removed everything apart from networking. Install happenned and tons of stull ended up being installed including X openoffice and the like - Why was that when i de-selected everything apart from networking? It was very much bloatware and not what i want on a server.
thanks for any hints _______________________________________________
First, this is RedHat's direction, not something specific to CentOS (just cloning you know).
This has been my complaint with RedHat products for some time now (about rh 7.3 or so). CentOS is simply following that system. One of the things that's really hard to get rid of are the graphical interfaces.... RH manage this... RH manage that, which seems to make X-fonts install, but I'm not sure if this is all. You can turn them off in one place and then find them in set to install in at least one other situation. Got to turn them off all over the place. An install of el4 versions seems to force X, whether you want it or not, in spite of unchecking X.
I do a minimal install, then install the packages(httpd,mysql,php,etc)I need. Never ran across a problem with it installing X when I didn't want it.
Dan