> > -no X-utilities (xbill, xcreensaver, xclock, etc.)
>
> Huh? Why should a home install have no games, screensavers or clocks?
> What's the purpose of this?
>
If you don't have any x utils then I don't know what you would like to do
with X ... kde / gnome stuff is still X based.
> > -selection of one or several windows managers
> > with selection of sub-packages to install (like: Install KDE2, but do not
> > install kdetoys, kdepim)
>
> Again, why no "toys" and no PIM? PIM is important, at least for me.
>
Just nstall more than one windowmanager, depending on how you configure your
system ..one way would be to login via kdm and then choose the windowmaker
you like.
> > -no command-line utilities
>
> Then the whole system wouldn't run. And command-line utilities are often
> way more flexible than these GUI programs.
>
Considering that system() uses /bin/sh -c you are goin to have a broken system
... besides, even m$ windows has got console-based utils installed, so that
when your system brerka down you can always repair it.
> > -Wine/DosEmu as options (with simple dialog box, like: Would you like to
> > install DOS support? You will need it to run native DOS programs)
>
> Wine/DosEmu is something *I* could spare very well.
>
Not every /home/ user will necessarily use windows programs under wine in
GNU/Linux.
> > -of course, no default installation of Netscape. I don't want to clean it up
> > after install manually
>
So, you don't use netscape but you use something else? There are some
alternatives out there I must say... May I ask what you use to browse the
web then?
>
> > -Libraries
> > I still rather new to Linux, and don't know which libraries I can delete
> > without affecting system (just : libc /5MB/ or glibc /27MB/ are used by the
> > system? At least one of them, I guess, can be deleted)
>
> Well, try rpm -e libc glibc and see what's more needed :-) Hint: It's
> glibc, so you may very well delete libc5.
>
libc is for compat ..
--
geoff
