On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 09:51:55AM +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Le 23/04/2016 23:25, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > today i tried a vagrant box from https://atlas.hashicorp.com/debian/. > > > > I have several issues with that box: > > > > * Why is apt-listchanges installed on that box? That is way away from a > > default installation. > > * Why does it come with a MTA installed? For a vagrant image i would had > > expected to ship a minimal installation without a "default" task > > installed. > > > > For my understanding of a vagrant box to play with, this box comes with > > way to many software pieces installed by default. I do not understand > > why it needs things like apt-listchanges, bc, exim, rpcbind, telnet or > > whois installed in a minimal vagrant jessie image. > > > > > Hi Martin > Thanks for you interest and suggestions. > > The aim of the Vagrant box is not to be a reduced package set for a > docker-like setup but to produce an experience similar to a standard > debian environment. This is is why we installed up to now all packages > of priority "standard" (and this is why apt -istchanges sneaked in) > > You can see the choices of packages currently used here: > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/cloud/debian-vm-templates.git/tree/packer-virtualbox-vagrant/http/vanilla-debian-8-jessie-preseed.cfg The vagrant-lxc images that I build actually only contain the base system (i.e. basically what `debootstrap --min-base`/lxc-create gives you by default). I plan to provide images for the vagrant-libvirt backend as well as soon as I get vagrant-libvirt into the archive, and they will follow the same principle. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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