[ale] Best base install

[CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com (Charles Marcus)]

> From: Greg [mailto:runman at telocity.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:27 PM
>
> Ok, after spending time cleaning out the crap from
> Red Hat 7.3 and Suse's 8.0 (and no, I have not tried
> the "barebones" install - it is next on my list) can
> anyone tell me of a distro that gives more control
> over a base install ?  And preferable has packages of
> just that, i.e. a "Database" package won't have X crap
> or games in it, just databases.
>
> I suspect Gentoo is done this way.  I don't know about
> Slackware and Debian, so, .... can any users of these
> two distros enlighten me ? (I have already gone past
> Mandrake - just another bloatware distro).

Gentoo is headed in that direction, using something called 'Profiles', which
will simply be groups of packages.  There will be standard Gentoo Profiles
created by the Developers, or you can create your own.  You can 'sort-of' do
this now, but it is gonna be made much simpler in the (near?) future.

Charles


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