Some analysis on the size of the minimal and Server installs of Fedora 23

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 03:30:54PM +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>> > b'dnf-plugins-core': 117
>> Nice to have, however Minimal installation can live without it.
>
> Since protected_packages is part of this, I don't agree. Sure, it's
> technically removable, but if someone starts from minimal and builds
> up, we don't want to surprise them. (This is the same reason the
> javascript stuff is a hard requirement of policykit, even though
> technically it's pluggable.)

Yes, please leave this installed.  It should be in every Fedora install.

(It should really be integral to dnf itself, but we seem to have lost
that battle.)

josh