On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com