On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 13:40 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > Are you thinking about the system packages instead of the world file? > > Yes. That's what I meant. Thank you for correcting me. > > > If so, I think it is as small as it can be already. > > That is / was my understanding as well. But I was not certain. Hence why I > asked.
@system depends on your profile. So depending on what profile you select, you'll have a different set of implicitly selected packages. To answer your original question... > What is the minimal world file to be somewhat conceptually similar to a > debootstrap install of Debian / Ubuntu? Probably selecting the "default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd" profile would get you the closest to start with. Of course it won't automatically select every package that Ubuntubian ships with, but that should only require you to add a couple of meta packages (like gnome- base/gnome-extra-apps for example)
