FreeBSD base system is installed similarly to what you suggest: just by unpacking a few tgz files containing it. This, however, only comprises base system; the rest necessary for workstation (such as Xwindow system, office suites, etc) are to be added separately. However, once the system is installed it would be a nightmare to update "one single enormously large" package (as someone already mentioned). Luckily, there is nice equivalent of what you would like standard Desktop installation would be, or anything else which you can tweak to your needs once and then install that tweaked system with one go on as many boxes as you wish. It is called "kickstart". Even better: RedHat (and CentOS) have more or less preconfigured set of stuff to install (minimal, Desktop, server, Development workstation,...) you can just use one of them in graphic installer and voila, you will have it installed with minimal brain effort. Just my 2c Valeri On Sat, September 6, 2014 11:46 am, Gergely Buday wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed centos 7 -- it works great. > > What made me think is that installation took 1300 packages for a Desktop > with some add-ons. > > As usual, there might be a solution for this already but I do not know it. > Would it be possible to create one big package for a standard Desktop? > Then > an installation would not take ages. > > - Gergely > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++