[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 01:42:02PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 07:10:21PM +0100, Petr Lautrbach wrote:
> > A thin client would probably not want to install openssh-server.
> 
> Bringing us back around to the point of this thread. :)
> 
> Thin client is one use case.
> 
> Server base is another.
> 
> JEOS cloud image is another.

oVirt Node is another ...  It's not really like any of the things
discussed before:

(a) It's "sealed".  You can't use yum to install packages, by design.

(b) It's minimized.  In order to fit it on very tiny flash disks,
large parts such as docs and locales are 'rm -rf'd.

Rich.

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