Tim Edwards tim@registriesltd.com.au wrote:
Just to throw in my $0.02: we do minimal installs with all our RHEL and CentOS boxes (both 3 and 4) and it really is minimal - no X, no GUI, no KDE/GNOME or Window Managers.
It should also be noted that there are _excellent_ tools out there that take a RPM or other repository and tell you _exactly_ what packages render what inter-dependencies and, most importantly, the individual and total sizes result.
Most of these tools came from Red Hat's own employees when the move to Fedora Core 1 was made away from the Red Hat Linux 10 Beta.
If you're building a server then you know what should be on it so you can just do things like 'yum install httpd php mysql' or whatever to get yourself going. Its a very clean way of doing things.
Which is what a YUM-integrated Anaconda in Fedora Core 5+ (thus RHEL 5+) is all about.