Re: [atomic-devel] [fedora-atomic f23] remove Python source files

[Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan redhat com>]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail com> writes:

> On 8 December 2015 at 07:08, Joe Brockmeier <jzb redhat com> wrote:
>> So - if we're talking about doing this for the Fedora release(s) we
>> should probably make sure to have the cloud list in the discussion as well.
>>
>> One question, apologies if it's uninformed - if we did this, is there
>> the possibility of running into bugs that other users of the same
>> packages would not hit?
>
> There is - the rest of the thread goes into more details.
>
>> I'd be concerned that if we're stripping something out specifically for
>> Atomic after a build step that we might create some hard-to-troubleshoot
>> issues for packagers who maintain any/all of the Python packages in
>> question. I'm all for slimming down the Atomic images, but preferably in
>> a way where we're helping to slim down things overall. (Or maybe this
>> wouldn't be an issue?)
>
> There's one trick we discussed that I think is actually fairly safe:
> using hard links to share the same set of compiled files for normal
> execution and -O, rather than having two copies. Assuming the "-O"
> files are used, then any asserts and "if __debug__:" blocks in the
> system provided libraries would get skipped even in the non-optimised
> case.

thinking more of it: as the trick is quite generic and not as aggressive
as my first proposed patch which stripped all the source code, shouldn't
be -OO used in any case where the source code is available as well and
not only for Atomic?

Regards,
Giuseppe