Base SL6 package lists

As with Fedora 13, we wish to have a lean base platform which can be added to; we don’t necessarily want desktop apps installed on servers. To save work, we wanted to use one of the SL6 install flavours for this and, after examining the package lists of each flavour, decided that the basic server flavour was the best match to our requirements (basic machine + perl, X client libs). This flavour includes some largeish software that we don’t really want everywhere (eg java, valgrind, samba and others). We removed these and the resulting base platform is around 500 packages and 920MB.

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