On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 20:27 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
A minor problem is that it's impossible at the moment to build a
F9
install CD without bringing in X.org server, Cairo and a good chunk of
gnome. See
http://marc.info/?l=fedora-buildsys-list&m=121740313820597&w=2
A "textonly" splitoff of anaconda and anaconda runtime that drop the X
dependencies would shed ~200 MB of dependencies, and make F9 a better
fit for embedded deployments, making the XS image smaller and nicer
along the way... hint, hint... :-)
NAK because the text mode installer is deprecated in major ways --
there's just no way to support the feature set that people want from the
installer.
But, one of the changes that's been going into pungi this time around
(after some changes that went into anaconda for F9) is making it so that
have a much smaller repo set on the CD than is used for the buildinstall
run. Thus, the installer images are complete (and use X) without
requiring all of X, etc packages on the CD
Jeremy