Re: [CentOS-devel] how minimal is a minimal too minimal

Karanbir Singh wrote:

the aim being to setup a base image, that is under 150mb to download and deploy.

I think there are (at least) two different types of "minimal" that could (and should) be provided.

1) "working server minimal" which would have at least yum and sshd -- this could be similar to what we do for minimal now, though I'm not totally opposed to shrinking it down a bit more.

2) "really really minimal -- and we mean minimal!" -- where the goal is to strip out as much as possible, no docs, no yum, no ssshd, etc.

I don't have a use for (2) personally, but use (1) -- or at least one of my own making -- quite frequently. I'd be happy if we could keep both.

-Jeff