Re: Minimal systems

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:27 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 03:17:55PM -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> > >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.
> > 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.
> 
> I think a rational split is:

You have the right idea, but Base and Core backwards.  And really,
that's where they stand today[1].  An install with just @core had next
to nothing which could be removed after the install completed.  And most
of the things which could were things which are used at install-time
(eg, lokkit, etc).  If you shrink the locale archive by cutting it down
to just what you want, remove some translations you get to under 200
megs iirc

Jeremy

[1] Well, I haven't looked at base as closely at core in a little while.