Fedora minimal install no tar tool?

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 16:44 -0500, Billy Crook wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It's missing screen, vim, and a bunch of other "core" utilities too.
> Fedora seems to be moving toward a @core that has essentially the
> fewest packages possible to boot.
> 
> >> 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).
> 
> What would it take to get a group like @core, but immediately usable
> for most actual work (tar missing?  really?)?

That would be @standard.

> I think there are a significant number of Fedora users, like Adam, and
> myself, who would use this instead of @core, given the option.

I don't know why you're reading that into my post. I use @core and I
like it, and I'd prefer it to be as minimal as possible.
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