[WBEL-users] Install without X

[Tony]

This is *not* a bash towards WBEL ( or Linux in general ),
But this is one of the main reasons I migrated to FBSD a while 
ago on the server Side: a minimal install really is a minimal 
install.. ( that and I got tired of 'dependency hell', its 
really hard to beat ports.. )

Still though, I tend to run my workstations on Linux, or in 
situations where I *need* Linux server due to 3rd party apps, 
RH ( and now WBEL after RH's change in philosophy ) fits the 
bill..

But I agree totally.. minimal in the Linux world doesn't mean
the same to everyone it seems..  


> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 16:02:53 -0500
> From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
> To: Ewan Mac Mahon <ecm103@york.ac.uk>
> CC: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Install without X
> 
> Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to install a system without X and I'm not having much
> success;
> > using the 'minimal' option in the installer yields a system with a
full
> > copy of X as well as bits of KDE. The problem seems to be a run of
> > dependencies starting from redhat-lsb.
> >
> > So, two questions:
> > - Has anyone installed WBEL without getting a load of XFree86
packages?
> > - Is this a WBEL problem or a RHEL one?
> 
> No. It is a dependency problem. Some of the RH config tools require X.
> I'm surprised that the minimal install is still so large, I guess you
> would need to go to a full custom install and trim ruthlessly. Admin
on
> such a system may be very painful and time-consuming...
> 
> When you select customize packages you used to get a choice of (a) add
> what I need for what I selected or (b) drop what I selected with
> unsatisfied dependencies. Haven't done that minimal an install in
quite
> a while, so I can't really tell you if that's still there, because if
it
> is I just selected "more" without hesitation, even my minimal systems
> are not that tiny these days.
> 
> --
> bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
>    CTO TMR Associates, Inc
>    Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
>