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

On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 at 18:23, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Lexi Winter wrote in <aO_S4wiMow1vDa-a@amaryllis.le-fay.org>:
> > Roger Marquis wrote in <
> q352p06q-s3ro-r489-s82r-o45n5219os65@mx.roble.com>:
> > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2025, Lexi Winter wrote:
> > > > we will never ship a set for a "minimal jail" because this is
> entirely
> > > > up to the user requirements.  there is *no* package which is
> absolutely
> > > > required to install a jail, because it depends on what you will
> install
> > > > in the jail.  so it doesn't make sense to ship any sort of package
> set
> > > > like this.
> > >
> > > How could it not make sense when 'distroless' Linux container images
> are
> > > so popular?
> >
> > i have no idea what a "distroless Linux container image" is.  could you
> > please describe this in more detail?
>
> i asked another committer about this, and they explained that a
> "distroless Linux container image" is a container image which only
> contains basic system files like /etc/passwd and /etc/resolv.conf,
> for use with a statically-linked application, like a Go app.
>
> this is something i would like to support in pkgbase and am actively
> working on, but it has nothing to do with sets, at least not right now.
>
> certainly, if we do support this in pkgbase, it will have nothing to do
> with the "minimal" set.
>
> does that make sense?
>

For what it's worth, the freebsd-static and freebsd-dynamic OCI images
which are part of our release build are inspired by Google's distroless
images (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless).