Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Saturday 2017-02-18 14:11, Michael Ströder wrote:
Michael Calmer wrote:
Please think of datacenters with thousands of virtual machines where the virtual harddisks are placed on a storage.
Sorry, based on my experience with customers running mid-size data centers I don't buy this cost argument. And really large data centers (Google, Facebook etc.)
Obviously, Google is not the target here (something smaller is).
So the storage costs are not high enough to justify bigger changes.
If I look at JeOS, I can see we even do not have the standard kernel installed but only the kernel-default-base just to save some MB.
But IIRC this was done because of initrd size.
Not really; something like Xen DomUs are in all practical scenarios not going to have hardware for all the drivers there are. That's where -base comes in handy.
Ok, so it does not serve as real argument for the source split for Python packages. Ciao, Michael.