[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosowski at nist.gov
Thu Nov 15 16:31:52 UTC 2012


On 11/15/2012 11:18 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:59:26AM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>> I don't know if that is what you're after, because busybox
>> duplicates the functionality of individual packages (and may have
>> some limitations in how well it duplicates, I'm sure). All the same,
>> I would definitely consider including it---it's of course available
>> as a Fedora package.
>
> Well, this is part of what I mean by "Fedora is not a tiny-linux
> distribution." It might be interesting to have a busybox-based spin, but I
> think that's a different thing.

Since busybox package already exists, I think it makes sense to use 
it--not because we're doing some tiny-linux, but because why not, it's 
just 651 kB. Most packages we discussed here (openssh-clients, sendmail) 
are individually much larger than that.


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