Package categorization and distribution construction

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Jan 19 14:40:56 UTC 2012


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On 01/19/2012 08:54 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Peter Robinson (pbrobinson at gmail.com) said:
>> Great idea, I would also love to see a clear out of the packages
>> that aren't core/part of particular categories. MTAs in minimal
>> would be one that comes to mind but there's lots of other
>> examples.
> 
> Yeah, I'd like to clean this up. The sad thing is that even if I
> define the minimal group as:
> 
> kernel dracut util-linux systemd systemd-units initscripts yum 
> selinux-policy-targeted policycoreutils
> 
> it merely drops it from 524MB/186 packages to 503MB/152 packages. I
> could make it smaller by dropping yum/rpm and dependencies, but I
> can't in good conscience ship an *installation target* minimal
> install that doesn't allow you to get updates or add-in packages.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 

Any headscratchers in the list or rpms?  I just saw that
policycoreutils had a Require for bunzip2, which it does not need.
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