New criterion for installation with minimal set of packages

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:52 -0500, Petr Schindler wrote:
> > 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.

More or less, yeah. Maybe we should make the criterion:

"The installer must offer a 'minimal' installation option, and must be
able to complete installation successfully when this option is selected"

(note that a later criterion specifies that any install according to
earlier criteria should boot, so we don't need to specify that).
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