Re: Minimal systems

[Douglas McClendon <dmc fedora filteredperception org>]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I was doing some work in identifying a truly minimal package set
> required to boot a system, and additionally minimal sets that get you
> rpm and yum.  That would then give us a base we could use to determine
> dependencies which need to be made optional and to find packages which
> need to be split.
>
> With those lists in hand, we could work on rationalizing @core and
> @base (because they're not really well-defined) and perhaps collapse
> them into one group.
>
> If anyone else is interested in this, please let me know.

yes please.  Rationalizing and well-defining @core and @base sounds 
great to me :)  I mean, if there is a rational reason why selinux policy 
should be explicitly listed in those, then fine, but I haven't heard the 
reason yet, just the fact.

-dmc