Base group not requiring Core group

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 10:38 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Gawain Lynch <gawain.lynch at bigpond.com> said:
> > How about moving rootfiles to Core then?
> 
> What is supposed to be the difference between Core and Base?

Core is the absolute minimal subset.  You'll get to a login prompt with
a shell and a root password.  Base is a far more reasonable minimal
subset that will even let you install packages afterwards ;-)

Jeremy