Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (465 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DenverD wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
> > DenverD wrote:
> >
> > > who gets to decide what "base system" and how much affect is seen,
> > > felt, heard, smelt or tasted......or just read about?
> >
> > Well, I know what I think the base system encompasses.  Overall, I
> > don't think it'll be too difficult to look at a package and say "base
> > or not?".
>
> understand, but i *guess* 'base' might be defined somewhat differently
> depending on the machine owner and his/her needs...like the base
> system interesting to a SysAdmin at (say) Rackspace is probably
> different from the base system attracting a Hollywood digital effects
> artist and both of those different from a nettop user, or your average
> Linux kernel hacker... etc..

Whatever applications those people need, they would not be part of the
base, imo.  Example base components I can think of:

syslog, sysinit, cron, zypper, apparmor, mail, X, KDE, shells, probably
quite a few more.   



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Per Jessen, Zürich (22.4°C)

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