New criterion for installation with minimal set of packages

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jan 31 19:56:29 UTC 2012


Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:52 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Petr Schindler (pschindl at redhat.com) said: 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > @core
> 
> That's an implementation detail. It's not a capability-driven
> description of which packages should actually be in the minimal package
> set, as was discussed earlier in the thread.

Merely stating that if you're linking to what the minimal set of packages
will be, that's it.

Bill


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