Re: should FreeBSD-dhclient depend on FreeBSD-resolvconf?

From: Lexi Winter <ivy_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:28:01 UTC
Matteo Riondato wrote in <43B68BB6-02FA-470E-A8C5-99D15E3707D7@FreeBSD.org>:
> > On Oct 15, 2025, at 8:16 AM, Lexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > NB, "set-minimal-jail" is not intended to be the smallest possible set
> > of packages for a jail; it's meant to be "minimal" (the basic base system)
> > for jails.  so if dhclient use in jails is widespread, we should probably
> > add it to minimal-jail.
 
> So does “minimal” really mean “typical”? 
 
no.  the project has no opinion on what a "typical jail" might contain.

"minimal" is the minimal supported configuration for a multi-user UNIX
system, i.e. the packages that people need to install to bring up a
standard FreeBSD system and have things work as expected.

"minimal-jail" is "minimal" without software that doesn't work in jails.
dhclient obviously works in jails, but i ommitted it since i thought it
was extremely uncommon to use dhclient in a jail.  but if this is more
common than i thought, we can add it.