Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> As Robert wrote, I think we should first define what kind of "minimal
> package sets" we want/need.

And I made a proposal for that one.

> From the discussion up to this point, there were already a few
> interesting proposals:
> - chroot (that's probably the most minimalistic, not even RPM in there)
> - very small without network (if that's of any use at all)
> - very small with network
> etc...

"very small with network" is the one that I personally like to have as
"Minimal Base Pattern":

Definition Base System:
  Purpose: Minimal booting system running on real hardware 
  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
  * YaST modules for 2nd part of installation

I consider networking essential - or do you have real use cases where
networking is not needed at all?

Andreas
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