Github user ottobackwards commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1261
The base option is like quick dev, but quick dev also had metron installed,
so starting it involved replacing the bits that where in there, we didn't
maintain quick dev ansible w/o the metron stuff and 'other' ansible with the
base.
I think that is a good idea, but for a follow on to this. This effort
itself is or may be just a first step to a couple of things.
The base image would not replace this, but be the base image that this
functionality uses.
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