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
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
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