Core installation

[bobo]

How about including the apps you need to make a minimal install in the core installation?

[gapan]

I don't even know what that means.

[bobo]

Thank you...

[gapan]

You're welcome.

Are you too bored to explain what you actually mean?

[bobo]

I meant: install the base system and THEN, install the apps you want. A minimal install, á la Arch or Debian expert install.

[gapan]

I still don't understand what you mean. That is what the core mode is all about.

[bobo]

Thanks anyway, gapan

[gapan]

OK, so you are too bored. In that case, I don't care.

[bobo]

OK, so you are too bored. In that case, I don't care.

Please don't assume you know my state of mind. The core installation is not the way to do a minimal installation.

After finishing the installation and rebooting, I updated and upgraded spi.
Installed xorg-server and tried to install icewm and menumaker but it failed; i got this error:

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configure: error: X Window System or development libraries not found.
Make sure you have headers and libraries installed!

Needless to say, that was the end of the installation.

1. Shouldn't these missing packages be in the core installation? (with the exception of xorg)
2. I couldn't find a list of the packages in the core installation.
3. At the beginning of this thread i made the suggestion of putting all the packages (libraries and headers) you need to make a minimal installation as part of the "core installation" you kept repeating "you didn't understand what i meant"

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"I still don't understand what you mean. That is what the core mode is all about."

It's not that I am bored, gapan; I was avoiding a confrontation with you and I failed.

[ginsim]

^ Hi Bobo
Can you please write or paste what you did in the install before you got the missing libraries etc prompt?

Cheers
Simon