background: everyone wants @system to be slim, but most people want the initial stage tarball that we release and you install Gentoo from to not be completely sparse. we've got a bug for this topic: https://bugs.gentoo.org/393445
items to sort out: - should the list of packages be in catalyst or profile-stacked content -> imo it should be entirely in the profile - should the packages list be in a new packages.default, or should we create a new set to hold it, or should we just go with @profile ? -> @profile has the advantage of already existing. we have to be careful so as to make it difficult to uninstall packages that the user does not actually want. - if the packages aren't in @profile, should they be seeded in @world ? -> imo yes as we don't want all the default packages getting depcleaned as soon as you start using the new install. if they're in @profile, then this is a moot point (assuming depclean does not clean out @profile). - should stage3 be @system only, or @system+@profile, or @system+@profile+packages.default ? -> this depends on the previous discussion a bit. today, stage3's are @system, but imo @system+@profile is reasonable. see next question too. - should we release stage4's instead of stage3's ? -> if we keep stage3 as @system-only, then we'd build stage4's which would add @profile/whatever -> downside is that we've been training the world to download & install stage3 for almost 15 years -> imo as long as the default @profile is kept slim, adjusting the definition of a stage3 is OK -mike
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