Bug 7019

Summary:	no text editors in minimal installation
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Claire Revillet <grenoya>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	nanardon, stormi-mageia, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	basesystem	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Claire Revillet 2012-08-11 14:00:39 CEST

Description of problem:
After a minimal installation, neither vi, nano nor emacs is installed...

(installation made with boot-nonfree.iso)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start the installation
2. ask to choose your packages yourself (other desktop...)
3. unselect every package group to have a very minimal installation
4. after reboot, look for vi/vim, nano, emacs...

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-08-12 01:57:03 CEST

vim is suggested by basesystem-minimal, so I don't see the real issue

Source RPM: (none) => basesystem

Comment 2 Claire Revillet 2012-08-12 10:33:00 CEST

yes, only suggested !
But suggests are not installed by the installer
(which means that it has no sense to put some suggests to basesystem and basesystem-minimal)

Comment 3 Olivier Thauvin 2012-08-12 10:47:40 CEST

Reply to #1:

I don't understand your reply: There is an issue, there is no editor at end of minimal install. So it's impossible to configure anything by hand.

Notice minimal install are usually used for server, computers w/o xorg.

CC: (none) => nanardon

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-08-12 11:59:44 CEST

suggest are installed by default, theire are not when you tell the installer to do so

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 5 Claire Revillet 2012-08-12 12:14:05 CEST

(In reply to comment #4)
> suggest are installed by default, theire are not when you tell the installer to
> do so

please try a minimal installation (not the one without urpmi, the one just above)
and tell me what editor you have installed :)

Comment 6 Olivier Thauvin 2012-08-12 12:22:31 CEST

I don't remember I did tell to installer "hey don't install suggest". There is no such options.

Maybe this is options is hidden by another one, but in this case it's really unclear.

Finally the issue remain, when you choose to install a minimum set of packages you end with less than the minimal to survive (notice in this I still choose to install urpmi !)

About the suggest, it seems vi is a POSIX requirement, so it looks like the suggest must be a require.

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2012-08-13 09:47:18 CEST

This option exists, but only when you deselect all package groups, when offering the various minimal install options (w or w/o suggests, w or w/o urpmi, w or w/o doc, ...).
I'm not convinced we should install a text editor in minimal install

Source RPM: basesystem => basesystem, meta-task

Comment 8 Olivier Thauvin 2012-08-13 11:38:35 CEST

Indeed all packages groups were unselected but in that case there is no easy way to tell we just want an simple text editor.

Comment 9 Thierry Vignaud 2012-08-13 11:44:24 CEST

Yes there is. Just check in "Individual package selection" in "Package Group Selection" step...

Comment 10 Manuel Hiebel 2013-01-28 16:50:03 CET

I see vim-enhanced installed as default in mga3

Comment 11 Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-27 12:58:34 CEST

Setting the version to cauldron since we can't alter Mageia 2's installer anymore. According to Manuel Hiebel the problem might have been solved in Mageia 3. Can you, Claire or Olivier, confirm that?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Version: 2 => Cauldron

Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-27 13:01:49 CEST

CC: (none) => stormi

Comment 12 Thierry Vignaud 2013-11-30 12:25:42 CET

On second though maybe should indeed at least install vim-minimal instead of only suggeting it, like does FC.

This is b/c of me: I tried too hard to debloat the minimal install.

I just reverted my change

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Source RPM: basesystem, meta-task => basesystem