Re: [atomic-devel] We have a bugzilla requesting that we change the default CMD to systemd for base images in RHEL

[Joe Brockmeier <jzb redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm fedoraproject org> wrote:
>
> We've definitely got a ways to go here — our base image is very large
> by any standard, let alone compared to alpine or busybox.

It is, and I support un-embiggening it, but ... IIRC Scott McCarty did
some apples:apples comparisons w/Alpine and once you load up an
application the size differential is seriously reduced.

(e.g.,  try adding PHP to Alpine and then see how it compares, size-wise.)

Best,

jzb


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