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Re: AW: [opensuse-factory] Making the basesystem smaller
- From: Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:27:17 +0100
- Message-id: <45AF3D75.1000204@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> * ralf.prengel@xxxxxxxxxx <ralf.prengel@xxxxxxxxxx> [Jan 18. 2007 09:52]:
>> A good idea,
>>
>> I think it would be enough to have a login and a !!small!! yast for installing more packages.
>
> If we are talking about a _really_ small base system, it should include RPM at most
> but not YaST.
> YaST is a convenience application for systems management and should be optional.
>
>
>> In my opinion it is not neccessary to have a working network for a really small system.
>
> I agree. Thinking of virtualized systems, sharing filesystems is sufficient.
Really. For what to have a virtualized system if you can't really
connect to it? IMHO a system w/o network is not of use nowadays. And how
do you share filesystems with virtual systems in the real world?
Wolfgang
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> * ralf.prengel@xxxxxxxxxx <ralf.prengel@xxxxxxxxxx> [Jan 18. 2007 09:52]:
>> A good idea,
>>
>> I think it would be enough to have a login and a !!small!! yast for installing more packages.
>
> If we are talking about a _really_ small base system, it should include RPM at most
> but not YaST.
> YaST is a convenience application for systems management and should be optional.
>
>
>> In my opinion it is not neccessary to have a working network for a really small system.
>
> I agree. Thinking of virtualized systems, sharing filesystems is sufficient.
Really. For what to have a virtualized system if you can't really
connect to it? IMHO a system w/o network is not of use nowadays. And how
do you share filesystems with virtual systems in the real world?
Wolfgang
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