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