On 1/18/07, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org