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



On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Josh Berkus <jberkus redhat com> wrote:
> On 02/10/2016 11:38 AM, Courtney Pacheco wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> First, thanks for doing this!  It really shows a lot.  I'd be really curious
> as to what's in the remaining 144MB, given that Alpine and BusyBox can get
> away with a userspace which is 25% of that size.
>
> As Dan points out, we can't necessarily dispose of DNF/Yum during the
> standard container build (i.e. Dockerfile).  However ... could we remove
> them afterwards?

Maybe this can be handled by a tooling itself - add yum, install,
cleanup afterwards.

- fabian


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