Feature changed by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Feature #308958, revision 3 Title: Reduce size of the Minimal Install openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: IMHO, the text-mode minimal install without X and anything still comes with "too many" packages. I use the minimal selection whenever I need to set up a new, clean, system, as installing onto a Minimal is faster than cherry-picking every single package for deletion from a Medium or Maximum selection. This includes, but is not limited to: * documentation to magic things happening in the background: PolicyKit- doc, readline-doc * other documentation that I've probably read already; bash-doc, perl- doc * archaic systems: yp-tools ypbind yast2-nis-client * packages serving no purpose: perl-Business-ISBN (heck, not even yast needs that), perl-GD * things that make my command line slow: command-not-found scout * it so happens that eventually I can throw out the entire python stack, and the remaining Xorg libs * printing, sound, bootsplash I have here a dump file between the initial minimal install and a tailored system - some things have been removed that I would leave on the minimal install list however (e.g. yast2-sudo). So the raw contents of the diff file is [mh, FATE has no attachments - see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577791 ] Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Everytime a new system is bootstrapped, I have to (="want to") remove these first because they will never be needed -- if they will, I can reinstall them later, or pick a larger "non-minimal" text mode from yast. Discussion: #1: Daniele Tombolini (kailed) (2010-02-07 16:18:14) Yes please, keep text installation minimal. Another relatet bug entry is #567575 about removing cups... + #2: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2010-02-10 15:35:01) + I don't see the gain of providing a documentation less system as one of + the default selection. The recommends are there so you can deinstall + them if you don't need them, but will get them by default. + Removing these default will remove it for everyone -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308958