On Aug 20, Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > By the way, I was just taking a quick look, and e2fsprogs isn't the > only offender in this regard. Out of a 201 MB i386 minbase chroot, 33 > MB, or over 16% can be found in /usr/share/locale. The next largest > hierarchies under /usr/share are /usr/share/doc, at 9.4 MB, and > /usr/share/man, at 6.1 MB. > > So if the goal is to shrink minbase, that might be a really good place > to start. Packages that might be good initial first targets would > probably be coreutils, dpkg, and gnupg. I am not persuaded that we should split a significant number of packages (how many? Where do you draw the line?) this way: we already have a tool to solve this in a general way, i.e. localepurge.
I strongly support Andreas' goal, and I think that demoting e2fsprogs would not cause significant compatibility problems since it would happen only for a new release when other things usually need to be tweaked anyway. -- ciao, Marco
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