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

[Clayton Coleman <ccoleman redhat com>]

Removing dnf would break most people who depend on fedora base images,
since installing new packages is the reason people depend on the
fedora base image.  Creating a fedora base image would dnf is
interesting as a side project (fedora-minimal?) but I doubt would ever
see wide use in the community, because it would double or triple the
amount of work someone has to do to actually use the image.  It would
appear to the user as if the fedora image is broken with very little
explanation, and not fit the common use people have for OS base
images.

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com> wrote:
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>> On 02/10/2016 11:38 AM, Courtney Pacheco wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
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>> 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
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>> If you're interested in reading the full details (seeing console
>> outputs, etc.), see the original version here:
>> https://gist.github.com/iamcourtney/b8709ed897b7ecc9ac0f
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>> **You may want to read the summary version first since it's much
>> shorter and easier to read.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks everyone,
>>
>> Courtney
> You should probably send this to Fedora-Devel for discussion there as well.
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