Reduce amount of packages in default image #3926
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Let's introduce some profiles and remove unused packages to reduce the size of the default image. Both building the rpm and running mkosi inside the default image are only rarely useful and shouldn't slow down image builds by default, so we move both of these operations into their own profiles. We drop the fish,zsh shells from the default image and also drop qemu-user-static. We also clean up a little inside mkosi-vm, getting rid of duplicated packages across the main and per distro configs.
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Let's introduce some profiles and remove unused packages to reduce the size of the default image.
Both building the rpm and running mkosi inside the default image are only rarely useful and shouldn't slow down image builds by default, so we move both of these operations into their own profiles.
We drop the fish,zsh shells from the default image and also drop qemu-user-static.
We also clean up a little inside mkosi-vm, getting rid of duplicated packages across the main and per distro configs.