[Fedora-livecd-list] F13 excluding packages doesn't work?

People, I have been experimenting with building isos from minimal up to a base version and when it is going completely I want to start with F14 and then there are some customisations I want to do. During all the builds and problems (which have been solved with help from people on this list!) I have quite frequently tried to exclude packages when the (qemu-kvm) booted iso hangs at that particular package. After having a working ks that produced a base iso with base X stuff that died after running startx, I restored: xconfig --startxonboot to the ks file and remade the iso - but now it hangs again after: Generating exim certificate Starting exim even though I have: -exim* in the ks file. This was happening at various times before (with this and other packages) with my more minimal ks versions but other changes allowed me to keep going somehow . . I just commented out "xconfig --startxonboot" again and now the new iso gets all the way to a login again - however it still crashes after startx [(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or dir; error setting MTRR] but I will worry about that later . . Why does exim NOT get excluded when all the other packages listed are successfully excluded? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au