Public bug reported:
I was comparing and analyzing a recent docker image for more things we
could maybe drop to be more minimal.
I found a few which are in platform.git/required that we might be able
to move to minimal.
Not sure what the best practice is here to minimize the container images
- put it to minimal as recommends and then remove it in livecd-rootfs?
Anyway that would be up to you, the discussion first ...
#1 e2fsprogs
For a cloud image and anything bootable with disks - absolutely.
But for a container which by definition already comes on its FS without disk
access.
I think this could be dropped.
#2 diffutils
There is no call to diff other than the references from its own docu and
bzdiff/zdiff, ...
Now while we need bzip2/gunzip and such, we don't need bzdiff/zdiff.
Should that be split and removed along with diffutils?
#3 dash
The comment says "Much faster default shell" whicih is right, but bash+dash in
essential.
Again probably ok for cloud-images and everything bigger, but for minimal
container images one should do - which of them I don't know.
I just was curious on those three after checking the image if they might be
removable.
(Triggered by danwest asking about images sizes)
** Affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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