List of 'base' packages that are always present

[Christopher Engelhard]

HI,
is there a list of packages that can be assumed to be installed on any
given Fedora system, and thus never have to be listed as dependencies?

I guess this isn't much of an issue in practice, I'm just wondering if
there is a *defined* set of packages that make up a minimal Fedora
install / minimal build environment?

Best,
Christopher

[Petr Pisar]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:49:01AM +0100, Christopher Engelhard wrote:
> is there a list of packages that can be assumed to be installed on any
> given Fedora system, and thus never have to be listed as dependencies?

It isn't. In reality there are some packages like "filesystem" that nobody lists as
a dependency. But in general all dependencies should be listed.
> minimal build environment?

There two build environments. For building source packages ("srpm-build" package group)
and for building binary packages ("build" package group) defined in Koji
(a Fedora build system). E.g.:

$ koji list-groups f30-build srpm-build
srpm-build  [f30]
  bash: None, mandatory  [f30]
  fedora-release: None, mandatory  [f30]
  fedpkg-minimal: None, mandatory  [f30]
  glibc-minimal-langpack: None, mandatory  [f30]
  gnupg2: None, mandatory  [f30]
  redhat-rpm-config: None, mandatory  [f30]
  rpm-build: None, mandatory  [f30]
  shadow-utils: None, mandatory  [f30]

-- Petr