Remove packages from the installer if only BASE is selected

Would it be possible to remove a few packages from the installer if only the BASE installation was selected / executed?

More precisely, it is about 6 packages. Here are the names as they appear in the menu items (xfce4):

  • Echomixer
  • Envy24 Control
  • HDAJackRetask
  • HDSPConf
  • HDSPMixer
  • Hwmixvolume

That would be very nice. :wink:
The packages are very good, but I think it is better for a BASE install if the user decides which additional packages to install for sound.

When selecting only the base (without desktops) these packages are not installed. In the other cases, they are installed, and it was at the request of several of the RebornOS users, some time ago.

Greetings!

But that’s exactly how I did it → only Base via graphical RebornOS Installer & xfce4 via command-line and the 6 packages were installed anyway. That is exactly why I asked this question. These packages are not included in the xfce4 group but are obviously installed when only the BASE of the Reborn OS graphical installer is selected.

If you start a test-install, you will see that it is as described by me. :wink:

Have a good day!

The last two entries (QT V4L2 Test Utility & QTV4L2 video capture utility) are not affected because they are included by default.

Yes, I read that too. But it was never about the BASE, but about desktops that were already ready to use. From my point of view, that’s a huge difference. I have now shown the photo, that’s all I can do. :sunglasses:

I can confirm that if only the base is installed, none of those packages are installed.

BASE only install:

‘bash’ ‘bzip2’ ‘coreutils’ ‘cryptsetup’ ‘device-mapper’ ‘dhcpcd’
‘diffutils’ ‘e2fsprogs’ ‘file’ ‘filesystem’ ‘findutils’ ‘gawk’ ‘gcc-libs’
‘gettext’ ‘glibc’ ‘grep’ ‘gzip’ ‘inetutils’ ‘iproute2’ ‘iputils’ ‘jfsutils’
‘less’ ‘licenses’ ‘linux’ ‘linux-firmware’ ‘linux-headers’ ‘logrotate’ ‘lvm2’
‘man-db’ ‘man-pages’ ‘mdadm’ ‘nano’ ‘netctl’ ‘pacman’ ‘pciutils’ ‘perl’
‘procps-ng’ ‘psmisc’ ‘reiserfsprogs’ ‘s-nail’ ‘sed’ ‘shadow’ ‘sysfsutils’
‘systemd-sysvcompat’ ‘tar’ ‘texinfo’ ‘usbutils’ ‘util-linux’ ‘vi’ ‘which’
‘xfsprogs’ ‘cabextract’ ‘bzip2’ ‘dialog’ ‘rsync’ ‘sharutils’ ‘uudeview’ ‘xz’
‘zip’ ‘screenfetch’ ‘efibootmgr’ ‘neofetch’ ‘rebornos-keyring’

I have a question for you: would you be interested in testing RebornOS? I’ve asked George.LG too. One more help would be useful. If you are interested and have time, of course.

Take care of yourself.

Greetings.

Very good news: I found the bug :sunglasses:

But first things first:

I have an interesting surprise that refutes that. :wink:

Yes, it looks right up to this point, but one very important point has been overlooked:
You have listed the dependencies of the rebornos-cosmic-full-base package.

However, this results in further dependencies or is selected automatically by the installer, which I have checked with the result:

The package rebornos-cosmic-common will be installed. And now take a look at its dependencies:

acpid alsa-utils alsa-tools dnsmasq  b43-fwcutter  bash-completion  crda  bind  dosfstools
haveged  gzip  intel-ucode  mlocate  modemmanager  net-tools  networkmanager  ntfs-3g  openssh
pkgfile  reflector  sudo  terminus-font  tlp  tar  unzip  unrar  p7zip  usb_modeswitch  wget  whois
wireless_tools  fwupd  arch-install-scripts  rebornos-os-release  inxi

In my opinion, some of these packages have no place in the BASE. The two or one of the two packages that caused the entries in the menus in xfce4 are:

alsa-utils alsa-tools

It would be nice if you update the installer so that packages that do not belong to BASE are not installed either. :heart_eyes:

Yes, that sounds good. I would do that. Not every day, but generally yes. :wink:

Thanks for the offer Ron!

You don’t have to test things every day. But when there is something new, we generally need help. We will notify you when necessary.

Greetings and take care.

@Rafael
Why don’t you respond to my findings?

Yesterday I showed for the second time that more packages are installed than you previously indicated, if it is only about the BASE.

I’m solving some problems with Openbox, and then I’m going to look at what you tell me.

Greetings!

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