Seth Vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) said: > >Maybe the definition of the fedora base set needs a bit of updating, > >given that it considers rdisc, saslauthd, audit, dnsmasq, syslog, wpa > >supplicant and sendmail basic. For container setups I need nothing of > >that... (heck! for my non-containerized server I don't need that > >either...) > > For minimal installs you also need a tool that can do automatic > installation of dependencies. Otherwise the first thing every admin > who installs minimal will have to do is to fetch down yum, python, > etc to get themselves rolling. Maybe in the eventual future dnf, > libzypp etc will be fetched down - but in either case minimal > requires such a tool as part of it.
To describe them all: - wpa & dnsmasq are brought in by NM - rdisc is in the iputils package (basic networking) - saslauthd is brought in by our lovely default MTA - audit, sendmail, & rsyslog are explicit. (The latter two being explicit help with depsolving fun, as we do want consistency there, rather than getting whatever MTA & log daemon the depsolver spits out.) rsylog would get pulled in by deps anyway; sendmail & audit wouldn't. We can certainly have a smaller image base that consists of something like: - systemd - util-linux - bash - passwd - initscripts But, as Seth said, unless you want to preclue people modifiying it from inside the chroot/image/installation by *not* including package management tools, it grows pretty quickly. (Also, it's not that much smaller now, due to things pulling in python, but bugs have been filed.) Bill -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
