Please find my comments inline:

> 2/ the minimal distribution didn't exist in Karaf 2.3.x, so we can't
> consider that as a regression.

That's not quite accurate. The minimal distribution exists ever since
Karaf 2.1.x and all releases so far did manage to boot offline, but
additional features where downloaded from the internet.
>From my pov it is a regression and its a regression that that in the
past justified a (-1). We've cancelled at least one release in the
past due to this issue.

> 3/ agree that the featuresBoot for minimal distribution should be more
> "minimal". I would keep config, kar, management, but I would remove ssh and
> region for instance.

I would even remove config & kar and go just with management as was
the case with previous releases.

> Minimal distribution is like this since 3.0.0.RC1 (it's not something that
> we changed for 3.0.0).

3.0.0.RC1 did manage to boot offline without issues. This seems to be
broken post 3.0.0.RC1.

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