[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:31:52AM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> >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.

We could just add the busybox binary, but doing that alone doesn't really
get much. In order to be useful, you want links to the commands you want
busybox to implement. And then, I suppose we'd want some way for those
commands to automatically get out of the way when full-featured versions are
installed (I guess install in an alternate dir with less priority in $PATH
than /usr/bin/). But since not every command is a literal drop-in
replacement for the full-featured Fedora versions, that could be confusing
(and for scripts, buggy).

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