Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

I heard from several sides that the base system of openSUSE 10.2 is a
bit large - and agree and would like to discuss with you what we can
do.

I thought about the following:
* make the existing base system pattern really minimal
* add another conveninience pattern that has all the extra stuff we
  currently have in the base system - and require this for all other
  patterns.

For a really minimal base system we have to define what we need first.

Here's a proposal for a "Definition Base System":
  Multiuser system with:
  * Local login (via /etc/passwd)
  * network setup via ethernet
  * default filesystems used (ext3) directly (without evms, lvm,
    mdraid etc)
  * no services running by default

My questions for discussion are especially the following:

* What do you think of this?  Do you have better ideas?

* Is the "base system definition" ok?  What's missing - or is it still
  too much or should made clearer?

* How do I name the new pattern with all the extra stuff?


Note this is in some ways a followup to bug  #228815,

Andreas
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