New criterion for installation with minimal set of packages

[Petr Schindler]

> From: "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com>
> To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:51:56 AM
> Subject: Re: New criterion for installation with minimal set of packages
> 
> 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.

So new beta criteria should be:

"The installer must be able to complete package installation with a minimal usable set of packages"

And what "minimal set" means should be defined somewhere else? And as soon as it will be somewhere, we should give the link.