[Fedora-packaging] Re: Requires(post{, un}) on something in coreutils

[Bill Nottingham]

Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) said: 
> Anyway the basic idea remains, we need something to define a very
> basic run time environment which all packages (but some bootstraping
> ones like glibc/setup/filesystem) may assume existing to not bloat the
> dependencies. Perhaps that's just coreutils and its dependencies,
> perhaps more.

... why?

Bill, who must have missed the first part of this...