Re: [atomic-devel] Are we slim yet?

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 12:36:24PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> I think we need to do two things:
> 1) Invest in shrinking down the core depchains (mainly, get Perl and Ruby out immediately)
> 2) Start performing some content postprocessing, like lorax does for Anaconda.  I'd been resisting this for a while because:
>   * It means we constantly have to maintain the postprocess scripts across releases; look at the churn in lorax templates
>   * It potentially introduces new bugs
>   * It doesn't help the mainline product (unlike #1)
>   * It breaks rpm -V even more than it is now
> That said, I may look at using the lorax template tooling for 2).

Let's please avoid #2. It really cancels out all of the advantages of
the rpm-ostree approach. Fedora Base Design group is working on #1.


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