OK, so people are fighting the idea of a minimal option. WHy not get rid of it then?
Core seems pretty basic. Why not then add groups like the following:
* Corporate Firewall * Home/Small Business Firewall
Put KRB in the Corporate Firewall, put DHCP/PPP/friends in the Home/SB Firewall. Put SSH in the home and a config rpm that installs a "listen on internal network only" sshd config. After all, we have a caching-nameserver config rpm. :)
Leave ssh as an option in both so it can be deselected in each.
The big complaint I've heard/had is not just that all these things are there, but that you can't deselect them w/o going through every single package, and hoping you got the dependencies right as mentioned earlier. Even making a large portion of the packages I noted optional during install would be a decent step.
Of the couple dozen packages or so I listed, only the following have been challenged so far (IIRC):
pam_krb wget dhclient <ssh>
I'd say that is a small amount compared to the list. :) That would mean to me we are (so far) in general agreement about most of the proposed changes. After all I proposed ~20 removals and only three were opposed so far.
If there is interest in this type of arrangement, I could work on more details for it.