[@core] working definition for the minimal package set

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 19 16:29:51 UTC 2012


Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > So where's that put kickstart?
> > Or is the assumption that anyone who wants a more-minimal target won't
> > be going that route?
> 
> Many of the outside-of-anaconda tools use kickstart too; they just don't
> necessarily have the same rules for pulling in core automatically.
> 
> I don't know if that's necessarily a great situation, since it means the
> same kickstart will do different things in different situations.

Well, anaconda could change such that the interactive person explicitly
specifies @core in kickstart, and we could then change anaconda's default
to not always include it.

Would require very large release notes, though.

Bill


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