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On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 13:58 +1030, Simon Lees wrote:
People looking at this are concerned about 50Kb of code because they aren't thinking in terms of 1 machine in the way we do but because they are thinking in terms of a system running 10's of thousands of container or VM images at the same time. At this scale an extra few packages with an 50k starts to be noticeable in memory usage and loading times across the greater system.
I understand that. Yet we have many more worthwhile opportunities for saving space than this. Just one example, the changelog of the kernel- default package alone is 6MiB, more than 100x the size of python-rpm- macros (and that changelog is present multiple times on average (open)SUSE installations). I know that this doesn't imply saving 50k here is wrong, bit it's clearly not the primary knob to press if we want to decrease disk usage. Martin