[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 14 November 2012 17:13, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 14.11.12 17:05, Kevin Fenzi (kevin at scrye.com) wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:03:03 +0100
>> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
>>
>> ...snip...
>>
>> > >
>> > > 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.
>>
>> That doesn't look like an intersection to me. ;)
>
> Well, if you look at all the usecases it happens that the container
> usecase ends up being the most minimal, and hence the intersection of
> all of them.
>
>> How about a separate group for containers, since the packages and use
>> case are very different than 'core' provides?
>>
>> @core-container ? or @container ?
>
> Well, it would be weird that the "minimal" installation is actually not
> "minimal" at all, but the "container" installation is.

I didn't think one installed an OS inside a container.. but basically
copied what one wanted into it... eg running anaconda to build a
container means you already went too far :).

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