New criterion for installation with minimal set of packages

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Jan 31 03:51:56 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 21:56 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, this is kind of problematic, because I don't really want the
> > release criteria to prescribe exactly what the 'minimal' package set
> > should include. Perhaps we should just explicitly refer to 'the
> > installer's "minimal" package set' or something like that
> 
> True - come to think of it, I really don't believe that it is QA's
> domain to define the task list - but it should be somebody's. What I
> don't want is the feature creep of the "minimal" package set - next
> thing you know, GNOME will be part of that package set. But I don't
> think that QA is the appropriate place to address those concerns :)

Yeah. As far as QA is concerned, the key questions are 'is there a
minimal package set present, does an install with that package set
complete properly, does it boot'. What's *in* it is not really our
concern.
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