Comment # 3 on bug 1031295 from Simon Lees

(In reply to Josef Reidinger from comment #2)
> Simon - it is questionable what is fundamental functionality, as for some
> kind of usage even package manager is not needed.

>From a openSUSE perspective is openSUSE without "zypper" really openSUSE and
would such setups even use this installer? or would they be more likely to use
something like JeOS. 

The Minimal_Base pattern requires 15 packages that we consider fundamental to a
openSUSE / SLE system such as aaa_base and openSUSE_Release. The base pattern
adds a further 12 required packages. On SLE we don't provide support for
systems without the base pattern unless you have a specialized support contract
so for openSUSE I don't think we should allow it either (that was the thrust of
the mailing list discussion). 

We are only talking about the installer here,  if someone tries to uninstall
them later I guess thats ok, but mostly were trying to stop people shooting
themselves in the foot during install. Multiple people testing the new desktop
selection have managed to break there systems this way so far.