On December 16, 2017 11:24:17 PM GMT+02:00, "Laurențiu Păncescu" <lpancescu at centosproject.org> wrote: >On 2017-12-16 19:58, Carlos Rodrigues wrote: >> Can't the "linux-firmware" package be prevented from installing any >> files by setting "%_netsharedpath /usr/lib/firmware" during >> installation and then remove it in %post? > >The proper fix would be for the kernel package not to define a >dependency on the linux-firmware. That IS tricky because real hardware might not boot or lack network access without it. I did experiment once ( on a Dell with Broadcom network chipsets ) and I had to use the KVM to revive its network access after fiddling with the firmware package. >> Can we get (at least) the man pages back? With the removal of >> centos-logos, the image size would remain about the same > >That depends on how many people complain about that until the next >release (probably in February). I would also prefer minimal images, fast >to create and destroy, to having the man pages included in every >Vagrant instance - like other people here. I am very much in favor of NOT including the docs. I find them to be completely useless in minimal images. And I would also remove groff, not only man. >> Although it doesn't bother me the least, the license violation issues >> that may arise from removing "/usr/share/doc" should be considered. > >"--excludedocs" is an official Kickstart option. If you can formulate an >argument that using it violates the license of any package, please file >a bug against CentOS and RHEL. Actually the bug(s) should be opened against the packages which do not install the license when excludedocs is used. The very reason of the separate %license macro (vs %docs) is exactly this one.