[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 15.11.12 00:56, Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) wrote:

> I think a good way to approach this is by looking for the interesting
> usecases for a minimal installation:
> 
> A) Containers
> B) VMs
> C) Bare-Metal Servers
> D) Paranoid people (not relevant)
> E) Embedded (out of focus for Fedora)
> ... anything else?
> 
> I list A and B as separate items, since they have different needs. For
> A you don't want SSH or bootloader (the bootloader is not necessary, as
> the container manager will directly invoke init, and you can login via
> local console). For B you you need a bootloader and probably SSH.
> 
> I think it would make sense to focus on the intersection of installation
> set for these usecases. And hence:
> 
> No SSH. No Boot loader. And definitely not Sendmail. 

Also, no kernel and no kmod for A, as that is provided by the container
host.

Lennart

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