Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > So, what it is bascially designed for now is: > > - Boot to a normal prompt > basesystem > bash > coreutils > filesystem > glibc > initscripts > plymouth (was for boot logs & encrypted partitions; could be dropped) > rootfiles > setup > systemd > util-linux > (plus implicit kernel) Plus a bootloader, which may be implicit (and I guess isn't absolutely required for at least some virtualization setups). What makes rootfiles essential? That's just overriding the defaults from /etc/skel with annoying aliases. > - Support basic networking > biosdevname (consistent naming policy) > initscripts > dhclient > hostname > iproute > iputils > NetworkManager Is NM really required for "basic" networking? If so, you probably don't need to specify some of the rest (such as dhclient) manually. NM brings a bunch of deps I believe. Also, I'd include ethtool, since you need it to configure NICs (although it may be pulled in as a dep). IIRC it got dropped from a default install for one release (and that was annoying for me anyway). > - Configure additional partitions for the simple case > e2fsprogs > parted LVM? I know it is a can of worms, but it has been the default for a long time now. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
