Re: [arch-general] Fwd: [signoff] [extra] postfix 3.5.9-1 (WHY?)

2021-01-23 Thread David C. Rankin via arch-general
On 1/23/21 5:43 PM, Maarten de Vries wrote: > To get an idea, I ran `pacman -S postfix` in a clean chroot, and the result is > 41.36 MB of extra disk usage (ignoring the package cache), 36.26 MB of which > is for different backends (pcre and sqlite were already pulled in by the base > package). Whe

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: [signoff] [extra] postfix 3.5.9-1 (WHY?)

2021-01-23 Thread Emil Velikov via arch-general
On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 23:46, Maarten de Vries via arch-general wrote: > > Hey, > > On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 00:02, David C. Rankin via arch-general < > arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > > Archdevs, > > > > Why are we splitting postfix by backend? Currently the package is only > > 1.5M

Re: [arch-general] dracut roll-out plan?

2021-01-23 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 1/23/21 5:58 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: Archdevs, I see dracut is creeping into the system. Which I see as fine, SuSE has used dracut for a couple of years and it has proven to be quite robust. But I do have a question on roll-out and what will be required on the user's pa

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: [signoff] [extra] postfix 3.5.9-1 (WHY?)

2021-01-23 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
Hey, On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 00:02, David C. Rankin via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Archdevs, > > Why are we splitting postfix by backend? Currently the package is only > 1.5M > total. Why would we want to fragment postfix backend capability into > separate > packag

[arch-general] Fwd: [signoff] [extra] postfix 3.5.9-1 (WHY?)

2021-01-23 Thread David C. Rankin via arch-general
Archdevs, Why are we splitting postfix by backend? Currently the package is only 1.5M total. Why would we want to fragment postfix backend capability into separate packages? With 1T+ average drive size the additional fragmentation doesn't make any space savings sense. Forwarded Messag

[arch-general] dracut roll-out plan?

2021-01-23 Thread David C. Rankin via arch-general
Archdevs, I see dracut is creeping into the system. Which I see as fine, SuSE has used dracut for a couple of years and it has proven to be quite robust. But I do have a question on roll-out and what will be required on the user's part. I have begun seeing, e.g.: New optional dependencies for b