[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 05:20:43PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:07:16PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> > > What makes rootfiles essential?  That's just overriding the defaults
> > > from /etc/skel with annoying aliases.
> > I think it should be at least "default" instead of mandatory.
> Consistency of environment. Root's environment should always be
> the same no matter how you install.

I hear that, but if you're in a big environment and you want root's dotfiles
to be different, maybe you should be able to deselect the package?


> > Automatically added by anaconda when the system has LVM.
> If we want to rely on anaconda to add the filesystem tools for whatever
> FS you install, we could drop e2fsprogs. But we'd still want parted.
> (And I think leaving e2fsprogs in the minimal install likely makes sense
> anyway.)

I think it needs to be there for fsck.

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