Hi Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2017, 01:03:00 CET schrieb Stefan Bruens:
On Samstag, 18. Februar 2017 00:04:36 CET Ferdinand Thiessen wrote:
On 17.02.2017 23:48, Stefan Bruens wrote: [...] 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.
It is not only this. Please think of datacenters with thousands of virtual machines where the virtual harddisks are placed on a storage. This storage has some raid level and admins are really fighting for every MB the OS do not need. Simply because multiplied by 1000 or 2000 some MB makes a difference in costs which need to be spend for the storage. And if we talk about other architectures where storages are extra expensive this hurt more. 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. The next things are containers which become really popular these days. Every container only run 1 application but bring a python stack if the software is written in python. For Desktop systems some MB do not matter if you can choose between 1TB or 2TB harddisk. But there are other systems. And if python officially defines that using only .pyc is ok, I wonder why we should not split packages. For openSUSE we could install the .py files by default using the recommends or supplements trick. We do something similar with languages. You can select you want to have german translations and automatically all packages which include german translations are installed. -- Regards Michael Calmer -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Calmer SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg T: +49 (0) 911 74053 0 F: +49 (0) 911 74053575 - e-mail: Michael.Calmer@suse.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org