Re: Minimal systems

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:27:47 -0500
Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think a rational split is:
> 
> 1) Base is the minimum required to bootstrap -- this should contain no
>    more than necessary to install a minimal system from which one can
>    install everything else. (This should include rpm, and arguably
> yum.)
> 
> 2) Core is everything that is "expected" to be installed in a minimal
>    environment as a matter of policy. selinux-policy probably belongs
> here. man, vi, traceroute, openssh -- a minimal functional
> environment.
> 
> In other words, Base is a technical minimum, and Core is the
> social one. That makes Core much harder to nail down -- but easy to
> bump things from Base to Core.

You've just about got it nailed, only switch your uses of Core with
Base, and vice versa (:

Base is the one you can disable during install.  You can't get away
without Core though.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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