starting Fedora Server SIG

[Les Mikesell]

Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
>>>>> and it is less right, X is brought in, and also qt qt-X11. Should
>>>>> certainly be investigated.
>>>>
>>>> That's probably because of LSB compliance. As has been discussed
>>>> previously, someone needs to split the lsb package in server-side
>>>> stuff and other stuff (yes that would mean a system that used only the
>>>> first part would not be fully lsb compliant)
>>>
>>> Alternatively... make it optional? Is LSB conformance required
>>> for a minimal install?
>>
>> IMHO LSB Core conformance should be required in minimal install
>>
> 
> Why? LSB compliance should be an OPTION you can choose to have but it 
> doesn't need to be there for a system work very well.
>

The LSB really has no value at all until you can assume that all systems 
   comply.  So yes you can make it optional, but doing so makes it 
useless baggage for everyone else too.

On the other hand, I'd really like to see a pre-install stage with the 
absolute minimum required to reboot and tell yum to get the other things 
you want.

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   Les Mikesell
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