Ruediger Meier wrote:
On Tuesday 25 October 2011, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 25.10.2011 17:15, Ruediger Meier wrote:
Like I've mentioned in my other emails in this thread I would not waste too much time about minimizing the package selection.
You don't have to. Nobody forces you to maintain a pattern, but let's not stop the ones who are wanting to do this.
Don't get me wrong I also vote for small installations. But what's the point of removing such fundamental things like acl just to safe 190K for example happened in 11.4.
Of course we are imaging those VMs and not installing from DVD. Still, having a minimal selection is useful because adding packages that are needed is IMHO easier than removing everything that's unneeded. Somehow those "gold images" have to be created ;-)
Really? I think sometimes it's the other way around. If I know that I don't need zsh than it's easy to remove. If my login shell is zsh since years but suddenly it's not installed anymore then I can't even login to install it (happened in 11.4).
Adding or removing IS easy, but having a small minimum server pattern means reducing it (adding and removing) as much as possible, and preferably limiting it to service-specific (mysql, apache etc) packages only. The basic tools should be in place, obviously with some being superfluous to some and not to others. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org