On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 16:44 -0500, Billy Crook wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Adam Williamson
<awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 17:23 -0400, Douglas Schilling Landgraf wrote:
>> I have installed Fedora 17/18/19 (selected Minimal installation) from
>> DVD and it completed successfully, however there is no tar tool.
It's missing screen, vim, and a bunch of other "core" utilities too.
Fedora seems to be moving toward a @core that has essentially the
fewest packages possible to boot.
>> Was this change intentional? Thoughts?
>
> Why do you say 'change'? From a quick look in comps, tar has never been
> in the 'minimal' group (which was called @base up until a few releases
> ago and is now called @core).
What would it take to get a group like @core, but immediately usable
for most actual work (tar missing? really?)?
That would be @standard.
I think there are a significant number of Fedora users, like Adam,
and
myself, who would use this instead of @core, given the option.
I don't know why you're reading that into my post. I use @core and I
like it, and I'd prefer it to be as minimal as possible.
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