[Cialug] What Are the Core Linux Packages?

[David Champion]

Sounds like what you want is LSB, but that stalled out, because it was too
RPM-centric and Debian / Ubuntu dropped support for it.

-dc


On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:19 PM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you had to write a one liner to identify the core packages on your
> system that make up the base of any* Linux system, how would you do that?
> I'm talking binutils, coreutils, glibc, kmod, the kernel itself, of course.
>
> It occurs to me that most of these are GNU project stuff, but not all. And
> I wouldn't know how to search "what's gnu?" anyway.
>
> You could install a minimal image of the top 10 Linux distros and count
> packages, but that's obviously not a "one-liner".
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> *Almost any. Gentoo, Arch, et al giving us choices, messing up conformity.
>
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> Todd
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