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[Erick Brunzell <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/03/2013 01:21 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> On 06/02/2013 11:27 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>>>> this is mentioned on our Minimal Install page. 
>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall
> Interestingly, I just tried out installing (into a VM) from the Raring
> mini.iso at
>
>
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
>
> I found that the "Software selection" installer screen includes an
> option "Lubuntu minimal installation"... so why are we not just
> recommending that people who want a Minimal Lubuntu installation do it
> that way?  Clean, simple, works on low RAM machines, and it already
> exists :)
>
> Is there a reason the wiki page Phill referred to does not document or
> even mention this possibility?  Why are we documenting command line
> approaches instead?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
The biggest difference is that our cli instructions don't install
recommends. When I run " apt-cache show lubuntu-core" on my stable
Raring it lists the recommends as;

"acpi-support, avahi-daemon, bluez, bluez-alsa, bluez-cups, cups,
cups-bsd, cups-client, fonts-kacst-one, fonts-khmeros-core, fonts-lao,
fonts-lklug-sinhala, fonts-sil-abyssinica, fonts-sil-padauk,
fonts-takao-pgothic, fonts-thai-tlwg, fonts-tibetan-machine, hplip,
kerneloops-daemon, laptop-detect, libnss-mdns, pcmciautils,
policykit-desktop-privileges, printer-driver-c2esp,
printer-driver-foo2zjs, printer-driver-min12xxw, printer-driver-ptouch,
printer-driver-pxljr, printer-driver-sag-gdi, printer-driver-splix,
ttf-indic-fonts-core, ttf-punjabi-fonts, ttf-ubuntu-font-family"

I'm not sure how great of an impact that would actually have on
performance other than using a bit more disc space.

Lance