>>  By the way the "Minimal" option has gone too which we never used in
>> practice but I imagine could be useful.
>>
> 
> Actually, I have found that I can do a much more minimal install than
> before.  Before when you did minimal you got core and base.  Now, you
> can actually uncheck things out of base.  (Does my server really need
> pcmcia, I think not, out it goes)  So I now have a much more trim server
> than I used to get with minimal.

Would it be worthwhile sharing ideas for a "truly minimal" YUM group
(i.e. something that easily allows to add things, but is unlikely to
ever need something taken out of)? This idea has been touted a number of
times by various CERN users:
* to easily set up secure-by-default servers (take
"truly_minimal"+"my_server", let YUM sort out the rest)
* to create diskless images (i.e http://cern.ch/ahorvath/u-boot or
NFS-root clients)
* to create virtual machine images (chroot/Xen)

If we ever get a good common candidate we could add it to the YUM group
definition (yumgroups.xml) even after release...

As Troy has pointed out, TUV "core" wasn't (until now). The proposed
group should ideally be self-contained (i.e. no dependencies on packages
not in the group). While YUM certainly handles this better than anaconda
did, it makes for easier auditing.


Regards
Jsn