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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

> > sysklogd is not necessary IMO, we've talked about this before...
> yes, already talked, you can dispel it to use another one after install if
> you want.
this argument falls through because you could do the same thing with
anything and just say that it could be dispelled on install. Are we
going for a minimal system on install or not?
> > 
> > do glib and popt really need to be installed also? 
> glib is needed by xdelta, popt by raidtools.
do we support xdelta right now?

> a install guide will appear in pre3.
> about unecessary spells, i'll try to find a way to automagically dispel
> these if user do not, for example, use raid, or jfs or whatever could be
> dispelled (and don't ask to dispel sustained spells, this is only for
> spells that can be simply dispelled - sysklogd will stay in too:)

perhaps you could have a menu at the end of the installer to get rid of
useless stuff? Or conversly keep the image.tar.bz2 small and then ask
what stuff the user wants/needs then that stuff could be unpacked
from cached copies, and the appropriate line could be added to
/var/state/sorcery/packages

-Andrew

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