[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 14 02:02:29 UTC 2012


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:55:46PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > On EC2 (as in many virt environments) the hardware clock source is
> > actually synced and running an ntpd service on the client is redundant.
> (Neat, I learned something today!) Sure, but there are a lot of Fedora
> instances not running on such environments. We could come up with
> plenty of use cases to exclude packages already mentioned in this
> thread, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be included.

Yep, but cloud/virt is a major use case for the minimal install, so we
certainly shouldn't make them mandatory there. I think time sync should be
in @standard, though, and it is.


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