Package categorization and distribution construction

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 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.

Yes, but its a good start and people can then review the dependencies
on those to see what is relevant or otherwise.

Peter