On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote: > In the big picture I think we need to tease apart a few different concepts: Yep, agreed. > * Stuff generic to fully automating creating a small-ish server > skeleton accessible over ssh (target case: virt-install) The package set here seems almost reasonable (although removing SELinux is kind of a no no); it has its warts, but it's part of being "Fedora-y") > * Stuff specific to EC2 Yeah, this should definitely be split out. > * "Minimization" - For example, removing localization And I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this has no place in any general purpose image. With AOS where you're going for the absolute smallest size that you can get, meh, I guess. More general purpose, the locale support keeps us from making the system inaccessible to other parts of the world. > Let me reattach my proposed file here. Basically, I guess I'm saying I agree more with your config than huff's :-) - Jeremy