diff --git a/Containerfile b/Containerfile
index c3bb6c7..1c6f1c6 100644
--- a/Containerfile
+++ b/Containerfile
@@ -3,26 +3,26 @@
 # This is a local reference by default because we haven't shipped this image yet.
 FROM localhost/fedora-bootc:base as rootfs
 # Drop our package sets into /usr/share/doc, so that other things can parse it
-COPY packages-*.txt /usr/share/doc/fedora-bootc/
+COPY packages*.txt /usr/share/doc/fedora-bootc/
 # Overlay our defaults
-COPY tier-1/usr/ /usr/
+COPY usr/ /usr/
 RUN <<EORUN
 set -euo pipefail
 dnf_args=()
 echo "Loading packages-excluded"
-for x in $(grep -E -v '^#' /usr/share/doc/fedora-bootc/packages-excluded.txt); do
+basedir=/usr/share/doc/fedora-bootc/
+for x in $(grep -E -v '^#' ${basedir}/packages-excluded.txt); do
   dnf_args+=(--exclude ${x})
 done
-echo "Loading packages-recommended"
-base_pkgs=$(grep -E -v '^#' /usr/share/doc/fedora-bootc/packages-recommended.txt)
+echo "Loading packages"
+package_files=(${basedir}/packages-recommended-minimal.txt ${basedir}/packages.txt)
 pkgfile_for_arch=/usr/share/doc/fedora-bootc/packages-$(arch).txt
-arch_pkgs=
 if test -f ${pkgfile_for_arch}; then
   echo "Loading ${pkgfile_for_arch}"
-  arch_pkgs=$(grep -E -v '^#' ${pkgfile_for_arch})
+  package_files+=(${pkgfile_for_arch})
 fi
-
-dnf -y ${dnf_args[@]} install $base_pkgs $arch_pkgs
+base_pkgs=$(grep -hE -v '^#' ${package_files[@]})
+dnf -y ${dnf_args[@]} install $base_pkgs
 
 # Ensure we regenerate the initramfs with new content
 # https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/bootc/initramfs/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dfda627..54d75a9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,29 +47,17 @@ podman build --from quay.io/fedora/fedora:41 ...
 You are of course also free to fork, customize, and build base images yourself.
 See this page[6] of the documentation for more information.
 
-## Tiers
+## Images
 
 At the current time, there is just one reference base image published
-to the registry. Internally the content set is split up somewhat
-into "tiers", but this is an internal implementation detail and may change
-at any time.
+to the registry. There is a `Containerfile.base` which produces a
+quite minimal base image, from which the default image derives.
 
-It is planned to rework and improve this in the future, especially
-to support smaller custom images. For more on this, see
-[this tracker issue](https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/tracker/-/issues/32).
+More on the history from [this tracker issue](https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/tracker/-/issues/32).
 
-- **base**: A base image with the effective equivalent of installing `bootc kernel systemd dnf`
+- Containefile.base: A base image with the effective equivalent of installing `bootc kernel systemd dnf`
   with "recommends" off. Intended as a derivation starting point for minimal systems.
-- **tier-1**: This image is the default, what is published as
-  https://quay.io/repository/fedora/fedora-bootc
-- **packages-recommended.txt**: This content set is the shared base used by all image-based
-  Fedora variants (IoT, Atomic Desktops, and CoreOS).
-  Changes to this tier may be done without accounting for external users.
-
-**tier-1** inherits from **tier-x** and **tier-x** in turn inherit from **tier-0**.
-
-All non-trivial changes to **tier-0** and **tier-x** should be ACKed by at least
-one stakeholder of each Fedora variant WGs.
+- Containerfile: Produces the default much larger image; somewhat similar to CoreOS.
 
 ## More information
 
diff --git a/packages-recommended.txt b/packages-recommended-minimal.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from packages-recommended.txt
rename to packages-recommended-minimal.txt
diff --git a/packages.txt b/packages.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..703d412
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# A relatively large base image suitable for headless servers,
+# a lot like CoreOS.
+
+# Include and set the default editor
+nano
+nfs-utils
+# Additional firewall support; we aren't including these in RHCOS or they
+# don't exist in RHEL
+iptables-services
+WALinuxAgent-udev
+# Allow communication between sudo and SSSD
+# for caching sudo rules by SSSD.
+# https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/445
+libsss_sudo
+# SSSD; we only ship a subset of the backends
+sssd-client sssd-ad sssd-ipa sssd-krb5 sssd-ldap
+# Used by admins interactively
+openssl
+# Provides terminal tools like clear, reset, tput, and tset
+ncurses
+# i18n
+kbd
+# zram-generator (but not zram-generator-defaults) for F33 change
+# https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/509
+zram-generator
+# This one is in Python so isn't in FCOS, but we can safely add it here.
+sos
+
+# Additional file compression/decompression
+bzip2 zstd
+# Improved MOTD experience
+console-login-helper-messages-issuegen
+console-login-helper-messages-profile
+# kdump support
+# https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/622
+kexec-tools
+# Container tooling
+toolbox
+# nvme-cli for managing nvme disks
+nvme-cli
+# Used by admins interactively
+lsof
+
+# Explicit dep for RHEL >= 10
+crypto-policies-scripts
+# Configuring SSH keys, cloud provider check-in, etc
+# TODO: needs Ignition kargs
+# - afterburn afterburn-dracut
+# NTP support
+chrony
+# Storage configuration/management
+sg3_utils
+## This is generally useful... https://github.com/CentOS/centos-bootc/issues/394
+cloud-utils-growpart
+# User configuration
+passwd
+shadow-utils
+acl
+# Manipulating the kernel keyring; used by bootc
+keyutils
+# There are things that write outside of the journal still (such as the
+# classic wtmp, etc.). auditd also writes outside the journal but it has its
+# own log rotation.
+# Anything package layered will also tend to expect files dropped in
+# /etc/logrotate.d to work. Really, this is a legacy thing, but if we don't
+# have it then people's disks will slowly fill up with logs.
+logrotate
+# Boost starving threads
+# https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/753
+stalld
+
+# This defines a set of tools that are useful for configuring, debugging,
+# or manipulating the network of a system.
+# Interactive Networking configuration during coreos-install
+NetworkManager-tui
+# Support for cloud quirks and dynamic config in real rootfs:
+# https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/320
+NetworkManager-cloud-setup
+# Route manipulation and QoS
+iproute iproute-tc
+# Firewall manipulation
+iptables nftables
+# Interactive network tools for admins
+socat net-tools bind-utils
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tier-1/coreos-user-experience.yaml b/tier-1/coreos-user-experience.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1098094..0000000
--- a/tier-1/coreos-user-experience.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# This file was forked/copied from Fedora CoreOS.  TODO: resync
-# once we have a good generic mechanism for sharing.
-packages:
-  # Additional file compression/decompression
-  - bzip2 zstd
-  # Improved MOTD experience
-  - console-login-helper-messages-issuegen
-  - console-login-helper-messages-profile
-  # kdump support
-  # https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/622
-  - kexec-tools
-  # Container tooling
-  - toolbox
-  # nvme-cli for managing nvme disks
-  - nvme-cli
-  # Used by admins interactively
-  - lsof
diff --git a/tier-1/manifest.yaml b/tier-1/manifest.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index be1857b..0000000
--- a/tier-1/manifest.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# Flip this back on, we're going to be a larger system
-recommends: true
-
-include:
-  - ../tier-x/manifest.yaml
-  - networking-tools.yaml
-  - system-configuration.yaml
-  - coreos-user-experience.yaml
-
-packages:
-  # Include and set the default editor
-  - nano
-  - nfs-utils
-  # Additional firewall support; we aren't including these in RHCOS or they
-  # don't exist in RHEL
-  - iptables-services
-  - WALinuxAgent-udev
-  # Allow communication between sudo and SSSD
-  # for caching sudo rules by SSSD.
-  # https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/445
-  - libsss_sudo
-  # SSSD; we only ship a subset of the backends
-  - sssd-client sssd-ad sssd-ipa sssd-krb5 sssd-ldap
-  # Used by admins interactively
-  - openssl
-  # Provides terminal tools like clear, reset, tput, and tset
-  - ncurses
-  # i18n
-  - kbd
-  # zram-generator (but not zram-generator-defaults) for F33 change
-  # https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/509
-  - zram-generator
-  # This one is in Python so isn't in FCOS, but we can safely add it here.
-  - sos
diff --git a/tier-1/networking-tools.yaml b/tier-1/networking-tools.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 79ad66c..0000000
--- a/tier-1/networking-tools.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# This defines a set of tools that are useful for configuring, debugging,
-# or manipulating the network of a system.  It is desired to keep this list
-# generic enough to be shared downstream with RHCOS.
-
-packages:
-  # Interactive Networking configuration during coreos-install
-  - NetworkManager-tui
-  # Support for cloud quirks and dynamic config in real rootfs:
-  # https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/320
-  - NetworkManager-cloud-setup
-  # Route manipulation and QoS
-  - iproute iproute-tc
-  # Firewall manipulation
-  - iptables nftables
-  # Interactive network tools for admins
-  - socat net-tools bind-utils
diff --git a/tier-1/system-configuration.yaml b/tier-1/system-configuration.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 561da50..0000000
--- a/tier-1/system-configuration.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# These are packages that are related to configuring parts of the system.
-
-packages:
-  # Explicit dep for RHEL >= 10
-  - crypto-policies-scripts
-  # Configuring SSH keys, cloud provider check-in, etc
-  # TODO: needs Ignition kargs
-  # - afterburn afterburn-dracut
-  # NTP support
-  - chrony
-  # Storage configuration/management
-  - sg3_utils
-  ## This is generally useful... https://github.com/CentOS/centos-bootc/issues/394
-  - cloud-utils-growpart
-  # User configuration
-  - passwd
-  - shadow-utils
-  - acl
-  # Manipulating the kernel keyring; used by bootc
-  - keyutils
-  # There are things that write outside of the journal still (such as the
-  # classic wtmp, etc.). auditd also writes outside the journal but it has its
-  # own log rotation.
-  # Anything package layered will also tend to expect files dropped in
-  # /etc/logrotate.d to work. Really, this is a legacy thing, but if we don't
-  # have it then people's disks will slowly fill up with logs.
-  - logrotate
-  # Boost starving threads
-  # https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/753
-  - stalld
diff --git a/tier-1/usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/30-bootc-full.conf b/usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/30-bootc-full.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from tier-1/usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/30-bootc-full.conf
rename to usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/30-bootc-full.conf
diff --git a/tier-1/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/05-bootc.preset b/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/05-bootc.preset
similarity index 100%
rename from tier-1/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/05-bootc.preset
rename to usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/05-bootc.preset
diff --git a/tier-1/usr/lib/systemd/system/bootc-generic-growpart.service b/usr/lib/systemd/system/bootc-generic-growpart.service
similarity index 100%
rename from tier-1/usr/lib/systemd/system/bootc-generic-growpart.service
rename to usr/lib/systemd/system/bootc-generic-growpart.service
diff --git a/tier-1/usr/libexec/bootc-generic-growpart b/usr/libexec/bootc-generic-growpart
similarity index 100%
rename from tier-1/usr/libexec/bootc-generic-growpart
rename to usr/libexec/bootc-generic-growpart