Fedora minimal install no tar tool?

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 16:19 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On 08/07/2013 04:12 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> >> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 17:23 -0400, Douglas Schilling Landgraf wrote:
> >>> I have installed Fedora 17/18/19 (selected Minimal installation) from 
> >>> DVD and it completed successfully, however there is no tar tool.
> >>>
> >>> Was this change intentional? Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Why do you say 'change'? From a quick look in comps, tar has never been
> >> in the 'minimal' group (which was called @base up until a few releases
> >> ago and is now called @core).
> > 
> > Formerly, it was pulled in by 'sos' in base/standard - it's now explicitly
> > listed there.
> 
> The sos spec file still lists tar as a dependency. This is actually
> false now as we're using the python TarFile class instead.
> 
> Does this mean that sos is no longer in base/standard?

The two are not interchangeable. And, er, base no longer exists.

There is @core, which is basically 'minimal'. Then there is @standard ,
which is 'a typical base system'. tar is directly in @standard, it is
not in @core. sos is in @standard, not in @core.
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