On 02/17/2017 07:03 PM, Stefan Bruens wrote: <snip>
But is there one good point for dropping the python sources? Of cause you can save some space, but that would be about some MiB (on my system 24MiB), but which system does not have enough space to for that?
As I already said, there are small devices, like Raspberry Pi, there are containers. It also saves download bandwidth on both the mirrors as the users machine.
Fair enough. But then we have to answer the question whether we want to optimize for the small devices and implementations such as containers. The other option may be to document how to get to a sourceless Python system, and maybe provide a "clean_py_source" script, that can be used by those that build for small targets. Without measuring, my gut feel would be that it will be hard to show that container start-up is significantly improved if the .py files are not present in the container. There is a cost to the "optimization" and the question, IMHO, is whether the places, such as the Raspberry Pi, where such an "optimization" might make a small difference are sufficiently important in the over all picture for us to take on the cost. The whole system becomes more complex and that brings with it an on- going maintenance burden. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Distinguished Architect LINUX Team Lead Public Cloud rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo