Feature changed by: Daniele Tombolini (Kailed) Feature #308958, revision 2 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... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308958

Feature changed by: Michal Papis (mpapis) Feature #308958, revision 4 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 + #3: Michal Papis (mpapis) (2013-09-22 20:46:42) + is this still open? I would also still want to see it, maybe something + like: minimal - no recommends, how is average user wanting just small + installation know what is needed and what not, especially as the + recommends change between releases. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308958