On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:40:39 -0400 Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:38:13AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > I'd introduce a third metapackage just "kernel" that requires both > > of those and implicitly Provides: kernel. Most people would just > > get the "kernel" metapackage when a transaction asks for something > > to provide "kernel", but if you explicitly ask for kernel-minimal > > you'd get just the minimal. > > +1 to this I think we should really avoid calling this "minimal" as we have seen that means different things to different folks. if someone wanted to explore this route, I would say call it 'kernel-virt-guest' or something similar. Establish exactly what virt env's are targeted by it, do some test runs to show that it helps anyone at all, and then sell it to the kernel maintainers. ;) Sounds like it could be a nice f19 feature if there are folks interested enough to work on it. kevin
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