On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 17:23 -0400, Douglas Schilling Landgraf wrote: >> I have installed Fedora 17/18/19 (selected Minimal installation) from >> DVD and it completed successfully, however there is no tar tool. It's missing screen, vim, and a bunch of other "core" utilities too. Fedora seems to be moving toward a @core that has essentially the fewest packages possible to boot. >> Was this change intentional? Thoughts? > > Why do you say 'change'? From a quick look in comps, tar has never been > in the 'minimal' group (which was called @base up until a few releases > ago and is now called @core). What would it take to get a group like @core, but immediately usable for most actual work (tar missing? really?)? I think there are a significant number of Fedora users, like Adam, and myself, who would use this instead of @core, given the option. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
