On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kay Sievers (kay@xxxxxxxx) said: >> when installing a kernel in a minimal system, it pulls in >> a bunch of otherwise not needed packages, because >> initscripts.rpm has a dependency on them. Any specific >> reason to keep that, or can we possibly drop it? > > The dependency was added for mkkerneldoth back in the day. If you remember > what that was, good for you. Long before my time, I guess. > So, in general, it's not needed. Cool, so we can drop it. > Building a minimal system solely from RPM dependnecies might have > interesting results if you left initscripts out, though - it's the vector by > which many other things are pulled into/kept in the minimal installs by way > of dependnecies, most of which you'd still want there: > - procps-ng > - kmod > - fedora-release > - util-linux (!) > - findutils Yeah, what we usually do is: systemd passwd yum fedora-release vim-minimal it's mentioned in systemd-nspawn(1) > Doesn't mean there needs to be a requirement from the kernel, though. Nice. Thanks, Kay _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
