What about the backpack-related work? Isn't cabal-install where the
user-facing CLI side of this work is most likely to be landed?
Backpack is also very exciting, indeed!
That being said, assuming the minimal installer variant get dropped from
downloads, where is downloads/linux going to move to, and how will it be
discoverable in future?
This a really important point.
Does anyone know if the distributions listed on the HP Linux page have packaged the minimal platform? As it is right now, it appears that Windows and Mac send you to a page where you can choose either, but Linux only provides instructions for Full except under the Generic option.
If distros start to package HP Minimal, I would propose replacing the Fedora and Arch instructions on downloads/linux with that, but we'll want to keep the Ubuntu instructions around due to your excellent PPA. I'm not sure how that should look concretely, though, given that it would essentially become a fourth option if HP Minimal replaces the current minimal installer section.