On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 11:09, Steve Traylen wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Corrie Kost wrote: > > > I would tend to favour following the Redhat choices for what is loaded > > by the core distributions. To do otherwise would eventually cause problems. > Just to second this the absolute ideal as I see it for this is that the core > version be as much as possible identical to redhat. Including for instance > bug for bug matches even if they may be trivial to fix. > I did not expect this to be contentious and I don't feel that strongly if people want a "bug for bug match". Just for the record though, I believe in this instance it is a bug: See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113485 This bug is fixed in Fedora Core 2. Perhaps it will get fixed in RHEL also. Maybe it has, I have no way of checking. Since the packages appropriate for a default scientific workstation will be substantially different from those for a default corporate desktop it might be helpful if there were a simple mechanism to produce a good base scientific workstation, e.g. a list of packages to add/remove. -- John Franks <[log in to unmask]> Dept of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ