Why i need all that b***s*** for installing oracle db?

As all you know to install for instance oracle 11g on redhat, oel, centos, fedora, etc... oracle recommends to install more than 600MB of garbage in the OS...
For instance if we have a minimal redhat install we would need to install more than 580 packages to run oracle. These packages are grouped in 12 groups. they are installed with yum or up2date depending on your OS version:
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" "Editors" "Graphical Internet" "Development Libraries" "Development Tools" "Server Configuration Tools" "Administration Tools" "Base" "Fonts" "Legacy Fonts" "Hardware Support" "System Tools" "X Window System"
Beside that we also need to make sure that the following packages are installed:
yum install binutils-2.* elfutils-libelf-0.* glibc-2.* glibc-common-2.* libgcc-4.* libstdc++-4.* make-3.* elfutils-libelf-devel-0.* glibc-devel-2.* gcc-4.* gcc-c++-4.* libstdc++-devel-4.* unixODBC-2.* libaio libaio-devel unixODBC-devel sysstat compat-libstdc++
But what's REALLY FUNNY, is that if we install a NON-PAYED version of Oracle (Oracle XE) we don't need any of the previous b***s***!!!! This is annoying, really annoying... we only need to install a sweet sweet RPM, 200MB, and e got it there...
So, anyone here can explain me (convince me) why the h*** we need to install 580 packages and at least 600MB of packages to get oracle ready to be installed?
Btw, I install oracle on linux for about 8 years, so I don't need explanations... I need to be convinced that Oracle could not do better than this... ;)
Regards
Joao
changed "must install" to "oracle recommends to install"
Edited by: Joao Oliveira on Apr 29, 2009 3:51 PM

Sergio wrote:
As they created those VM templates they could also create a JEOS release of OELJEOS is OEL. A JEOS release of OEL doesn't really make sense, because you have to be able to answer the question, Just Enough for what?
Or even better create that and some Amazon EC2 AMI's too...
For me it makes sense to have a Just enought OS for Oracle Database to run... Despite most people refer to JeOS as beeing related to VM environment's (for instance Ubuntu JeOS) the JeOS concept is not exclusive to VM's. And it sure even makes more sense to have a JeOS for running in an VM such as Amazon EC2.
EC2 AMIs with an Oracle Database in it already exist. OEL AMIs are being worked on if they're not already there.Exists in US :) not europe...
If you take a closer look at those AMI's you surelly find at least 500MB of software installed that's not needed to run Oracle 11g. I may be wrong but the OEL5 that comes installed on those AMI's eats ~300MB of memory without database running... And for instance I have EC2 instances (fedora 8) running that only uses 65MB memory without the oracle database running... If you think that a 32bit instance in amazon has at most 1.7GB, those 240 MB makes all difference to run databases! If I use the OEL, I waste 250 MB of precious memory that I can use in my database SGA.
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Finally, there's also a Metalink Note titled Linux OS Installation with Reduced Set of Packages for Running Oracle Database Server, 728346.1.I also note that 4 hours ago :)
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SergioRegards
Joao

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