Fedora minimal install option

[Brad Hards]

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On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:42 pm, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > The Absolute (non-empty) minimum are 6 packages (glibc, glibc-common,
> > tzdata, basesystem, filesystem, setup). The next step are 56 packages[1]
> > which are needing 71 MiB (installed languages: C,de,en,es,fr); an oldish
> > deptree of them is available at
> >
> >    http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/rpmDirectoryCheck/results/rpm.png
> >
> >
> > Then, adding the kernel + its deps, you will end in 63 packages which
> > are taking 104 MiB. There is a potential to reduce this numbers by
> > omitting all non-C languages, but rpm has a bug[2] which prevents this.
There is a another issue, apart from size. It would be very handy, as a 
developer, to know what parts of fedora will _always_ be available. This is 
one of the key issues to escaping dependency hell.

What is the assumed minimum set? Just the 6? Or something more? What langs 
will be support in the assumed minimum set?

Brad
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