[@core] working definition for the minimal package set
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 12 20:25:06 UTC 2012
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 12:17 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:08:38PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> To be fair if we're talking about redefining what goes into @core
>>> (which cannot be deselected, and mandatory items cannot be
>>> deselected) then even those doing kickstart/pxe are relevant to the
>>> discussion.
>>
>> Is it now the case that they can't be deselected with "-" in kickstart?
>>
>>
>
> Historically the @core group did not have anything other than mandatory
> packages as there was no UI to deselect them (because core was not a visible
> group). Core is still not a visible group, but there appears to be a few
> "default" packages in there now, NetworkManager, ppc64-utils, and sendmail.
> I'm not sure of the backstory on this, but now you can - those packages
> (provided nothing else requires them). More of @core could be made this way,
> if that was desired for the kickstarters.
sendmail is in there so we didn't need a special case to make sendmail
'win' for the options for MTA.
ppc64-utils is b/c I do not think we had another way to get it in for the
ppc boxes.
-sv
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