[CentOS] 'Many' packages installed - CentOS 4.1

[Daniel Wright]

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
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>
>
> 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