Feature request: Could the CentOS 8 in CentWSL download be more complete?

[datdinhquoc]

I'm on Windows 10 v2004 (build 19041), recently updated from Microsoft.

I find the installation from CentOS7.exe rather complete, with everything ready, however, the installation from CentOS8.exe is missing a lot of stuff.

CentOS7.zip == 350MB
CentOS8.zip == 70MB

Even 'passwd' is not useable, I had to install this package to use 'passwd':
sudo dnf install cracklib-dicts -y

Also CentOS8.zip doesn't come with libs for GUI apps on virtual X display, so I had to install these too:
sudo dnf install mesa-libGL -y
sudo dnf install mesa-dri-drivers -y

Possibly, CentOS8.zip could be complete like CentOS7.zip?

[mahmoudajawad]

Can I add to your request that both the versions remain to exist? Like, a minimalist version and a full version.

[Pascal76]

I agree, there should be a minimalist version
and may be scripts to add additional packages, as an option.

[wdtj]

For what it's worth, I was able to run:
yum install -y passwd
And installed passwd.

[mahmoudajawad]

Coming back to this. I think I'm now opposing this feature request although initially I thought having full-fledged version is a good idea as long as the minimal continue to exists. However, recently I had an encounter with some issue that left me helpless, only because I grew used to having some specific lib in fedora installation, and that kept me away from trying to check if it really exists. I didn't spend years, but minutes before realising the issue.

What I'm trying to say is minimal is always the best. Anything extra? just create a note and save it in a Gist where it has your DISTRONAMEHERE_bootstrapper.sh and your lovely sudo PACKAGEMANAGERNAMEHERE install -y PACKAGE PACKAGE, and this will always assure you that you get your stuff no matter whether official or community builds of any distro provide your stuff or not.