Re: [atomic-devel] Reducing the footprint of the Fedora docker base image

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com>]

On 02/10/2016 11:38 AM, Courtney Pacheco wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently analyzed the official Fedora docker base image to see how
> we can reduce its overall size. A summary of the work I did can be
> found here:
> https://gist.github.com/iamcourtney/1a4af7c4289014f57080
>
> If you're interested in reading the full details (seeing console
> outputs, etc.), see the original version here:
> https://gist.github.com/iamcourtney/b8709ed897b7ecc9ac0f
>
> **You may want to read the summary version first since it's much
> shorter and easier to read.
>
> I essentially looked at which packages were being installed to the
> base image and tried to determine which of those packages could be
> turned into weak dependencies and which of those packages we can
> possibly break up.
>
> If possible, I'd like some feedback on the work I did. Comments and
> criticism are more than welcomed! I realize there may be some
> controversy in terms of what I chose to remove and what I chose to
> turn into weak dependencies, but I would like to hear your thoughts
> either way.
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> Courtney
>
You should probably send this to Fedora-Devel for discussion there as well.