Dear Craig, On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:58:40 -0500 Craig Thompson <cthompson at loganthompsonlaw.com> wrote: > My goal is to develop my own list, put it in a basic shell script and > remove them wholesale. I've done this for generally unused services > which I run upon installation of a basic system, and it works well. Why don't you go the other way around: Create a kickstart file with only the exact packages you need? E.g. -- snip -- %packages --excludedocs --nobase screen vim-enhanced wget postfix vixie-cron Above example will give you a minimal system with 5 extra packages. You can do a lot more with kickstart. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart for full documentation. Brgds -- Freundliche Gruesse/Best Regards Benjamin Hackl IT/Administration Media FOCUS Research Ges.m.b.H. Maculangasse 8, 1220 Wien Austria Tel: +43 1 258 97 01-295 b.hackl at focusmr.com