RLFontan
Personally i would like to have a "Alternative Downloads" section to get access to a minimal install iso, its a nice thing to have... i don't know if it's hard to maintain or something...
Not going to happen. For us a minimal install includes a functional desktop environment. Even if that is just i3 and useful apps.
Would be nice to an i3 user to have a feature like that. Would be nice to a KDE Plasma tester, just download a netinstall with the proper integrity check and install, instead of using testing isos without a integrity check.
I have no intention of providing netinstall images any time soon. This is not something an average user needs.
Also, besides we can consider this a "technical preciosity": less packages = less vulnerabilities to be explored.
Not necessarily. You forget that some packages like apparmor actually close security holes 🙂
I really like Solus, it's an independent distro focused on the desktop... no companies getting in the way, no mix of interests... but i must confess that i feel like sometimes Solus overprotect the user... i feel like, if that decision of do not produce a netinstall iso is based on pragmatism, than it's fine, but if its based on protecting a certain philosophy, then it's an exaggeration.
Obs: i also agree that for the average user an "out of the box" mindset is better, so, if a netinstall is hard to maintain, maybe the best decision is to extend this idea to future, when probably Solus will have more man work... i agree it's not an necessary thing.
It's philosophical in this case, not pragmatic. Home users don't need netinstalls. That's an Enterprise feature.
Obs2: I really hope that the new Solus package manager will solve this "orphan packages" problems in the proper way, without harming the average user.
eopkg already does this. The problem that you are running into is that what you think is an orphan was manually installed as a part of the ISO and marked as such. Therefore it isn't an orphan.
In the end, i think we should trust Solus leaders. They should know how much Solus can handle "non-essential" stuff, and how much that could hurt or take out the focus of the project or not. For now, for normal installations i keep my eyes on Solus, for minimal ones i keep my eyes on Void Linux or maybe Debian.
We aren't a minimal distro. We support modern hardware and software, which means being able to spare a few GBs on a fresh install.
