On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com> wrote:

Here is out current minimal kickstart package list. We use this as the basics to get a box installable from the ground up with everything else needed afterwords. There is still a lot of bike-shedding here: (postfix vs sendmail, remove prelink, biosdevname, etc) but it comes out to about 353 packages and a disk usage of 888 MB. Ansible and yum gets the rest for us. 
 
%packages --nobase
acpid
authconfig
bash-completion
bind-utils
-biosdevname
-cronie-anacron
cronie-noanacron
crontabs
dhclient
iptables-services
-iwl*
-libertas*
-logwatch
mailx
nfs-utils
nmap-ncat
ntp
ntpdate
openssh-clients
openssh-server
patch
postfix
-prelink
rsync
screen
telnet
tmpwatch
traceroute
-sendmail
-sendmail-cf
strace
tmux
vim-enhanced
yum
yum-utils


Stephen, thanks for sharing!  In my opinion I'd say "minimal" doesn't need things like: mailx, nfs-utils, patch, rsync, screen, telnet, traceroute, strace, tmux.  vim-enhanced I personally would like to include, but it's not really minimal.

Just throwing that out there for discussion.  I don't have a strong disagreement with your list -- although 888M does seem to be getting kind of large.  I wonder what size Wolfy has stuff down to? :)

-Jeff