On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:00:39 -0400, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote: > "The aim of this disk is to install a CentOS 6.3 system which has a > minimum of packages needed to have a functional system, with no > compromise regarding security and fully network and yum aware." yes I get the sentiment. Ok strike 'man' and 'ntp'. But netcat and bind-utils are TROUBLESHOOTING tools. When the install is done and your machine don't work, it's mighty nice to be able to see if you have more than 'ping' working. If name resolution isn't working 'yum' isn't going to be productive. My rationale for wget is so that in a pinch you can get files be they config, RPM or whatever. NFS-utils is in there which could be argued is of less import. I'm not trying to argue unnecessarily here but minimal should IMO be more than just the exact number of packages left over after we've managed to remove every last thing we could. My piece has been said. Talk amongst yourselves. -- Cloud Services Architect, Senior System Administrator InfoRelay Online Systems (www.inforelay.com)