< SIGs | Minimal Core
This page documents the packages in the current @core group in Fedora's comps file. It is not the source of the comps file, nor is it authorative. It exists primarily to document the historical decisions which led to this selection of packages.
Mandatory Packages
These packages are always installed and can't be removed by deselecting them with a -packagename in kickstart. Some of them may be removable with rpm -e (if not required by something else, of course).
audit
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
basesystem
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
bash
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
biosdevname
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
coreutils
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
cronie
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
curl
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
dhclient
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
e2fsprogs
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
filesystem
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
glibc
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
hostname
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
initscripts
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
iproute
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
iprutils
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
iputils
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
kbd
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
less
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
man-db
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
ncurses
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
openssh-clients
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
openssh-server
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
parted
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
passwd
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
plymouth
Description: Graphical boot animation Needed because: Previously was the only way to prompt for disk encryption passwords on boot; no longer necessary due to systemd. Other notes: A good candidate for removal.
policycoreutils
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
procps-ng
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
rootfiles
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
rpm
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
rsyslog
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
selinux-policy-targeted
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
setup
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
shadow-utils
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
sudo
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
systemd
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
util-linux
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
vim-minimal
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
yum
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
Default Packages
These packages are installed by default and can't be deselected in the Anaconda UI but can be deselected with -packagename in a kickstart file.
NetworkManager
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
ppc64-utils
Description: Needed because: Other notes:
sendmail
Description: Mail Transport Agent MTA Needed because: Probably not technically needed, although cronie defaults to sending e-mail on errors. This is here because we have multiple packages providing MTAs and we wanted a deterministic result. Other notes:
Packages No Longer in @Core
Packages here were previously in @core, but have been removed. This is not a comprehensive list back to the dawn of Fedora, but will serve to provide history for some of our decisions.