Hi Michal, Am 20.01.20 um 20:06 schrieb Michal Kubecek:
One word of warning before this gets out of hand and -kvmsmall flavor enters the dark path of abuse like kernel-default-base subpackage before it: the -kvmsmall flavor was *not* designed for "occasional home user" or, actually, any user. Its sole purpose is to serve as a flavor which builds as quickly as possible so that developers could quickly test their core fixes in a VM (or bisect regressions). Originally, we didn't even plan to build and publish it in BuildService.
Good point. This should probably be somewhere in the package %description. Oh! It is in the description. Which -- of course -- I did not read before ;-) I probably just judged from the name that it might be suitable for KVM use. I thought of it as "something like kernel-xen or kernel-ec2, but for KVM".
In other words, the -kvmsmall flavor is not intended for practical use and therefore "it would make it more useful for practical use" is not a valid justification for adding more stuff to it.
And actually, probably due to compressed modules(?), the size difference (168MB vs 92MB) in Factory is much less significant than it is in Leap 15.1 (where -default is 311MB vs -kvmsmall 117MB), so it is probably not as useful (size-wise) as I thought it would be. Thanks, seife -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org