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[Andy Green]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> (a) fedora had a "seriously-minimal" install that was just
> enough to get yum working and (b) things that are almost-rebrands

I did in fact generate such a thing, well, a somewhat mutant groaning
script-created monstrosity that was based on such a thing, for FC3 here:

http://warmcat.com/silentcat

A much smaller packageset than the minimal install does in fact hang
together with the stock fedora packages without any other dependencies
(see step 7 on the page).  At least it did in FC3.  This packageset has
full rpm and yum but had the minimal footprint of the options from
Fedora packages that would hang together.

I did suggest on fedora-devel a year or more ago that "Fedora Core"
would perhaps be more flexible if it really did mean 'Core', ie, was a
minimal functional packageset, and there were onionshells around it
based on more extensive packageselection.  But in the end the problem is
that with 'fullblown' package configurations that are suitable for
desktop use, you can't really reach down into even ten times the memory
footprint possible with a Busybox-style implementation, so Fedora will
not stretch into machines that would like a "seriously-minimal"
implementation.

-Andy
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