misc bugs have been popping up with people questioning the presence of certaing packages in the 'core' or 'system' of Gentoo. my suggestion towards making the slimmest (weird, 1 m away from slime) core ... the core *should* only contain the minimum packages required to emerge other packages/start the system up examples: reiserfs tools (either you love or hate reiserfs ... some people detest the mere presence of said binaries on their systems) raidtools (not everyone runs raid ;]) telnetd (if ssh isnt here, why is telnet ? plus, how is telnet required to emerge other packages ?) dhcpcd (yes it is quite common on desktops, but not servers ...) what are your opinions ?
i guess one source of rational to ues when generating the 'core' of gentoo is http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.1.html 'The contents of the root filesystem must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system.'
We trimmed it down, and removed reiserfsprogs, telnetd and raidtools.