Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

["Claes Bäckström" <claes.backstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/18/07, Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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,

I think this sounds like a great idea. I was only yesterday thinking
of this exact thing. Nice to know that I'm in such a sync with other
great minds.

Something I would like to see in the "base" pattern is tools to
install new software and with that I don't only mean rpm but a way to
use a network source for installation and update perhaps zypper? And I
personally never install a machine nowdays without lvm2 so for me that
is a essential tool (others might disagree). But the update/install
parts is the most important.

Warm Regards,
Claes Backstrom
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