On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
I'm looking at this from the support perspective. "I installed the micro variant, but there's no yum to install more packages?" -- "Correct, the micro.iso does not contain yum, you will need to download and burn and install the minimal.iso if you need that [or jump through other hoops]" -- "Well that sucks, I'm switching to $some_other_distro."
Having dealt with that kind of support question for 15+ years... they are usually going to say that no matter what. It is a game of whatif you can't get past because this type of person is mostly looking for an excuse not to use you versus seeing it as something they should have known.
Sure, but support questions aren't really a problem if you have an answer like 'run this one-line, easily typed command" and the issue is resolved'. For pretty much anything but yum, that command is 'yum install some_list_of_stuff'. If you leave out yum, you need some functional equivalent to get it - which might be considerably smaller than yum but still non-trivial since it needs to find the current version and all its dependencies. Maybe that list of packages could be maintained externally in a way that rpm could get them directly, though.