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Bug 4875 - Trim Gentoo Core to Just A Core
Summary: Trim Gentoo Core to Just A Core
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Bart Verwilst
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Depends on: 4278 4650
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Reported: 2002-07-11 13:19 UTC by SpanKY
Modified: 2002-09-01 05:08 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-07-11 13:19:21 UTC
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 ?
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-07-15 18:34:51 UTC
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.'
Comment 2 Bart Verwilst 2002-09-01 05:08:29 UTC
We trimmed it down, and removed reiserfsprogs, telnetd and raidtools.