Am 16.05.2016 um 14:18 schrieb Michael Biebl:
2016-05-16 6:15 GMT+02:00 Auke Kok <auke-jan.h....@intel.com>:On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 04:24:25AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:1,5M usr/bin/systemd-analyze What's up with systemd-analyze?It shouldn't be part of a base package, it's not even a diagnostic tool, more like a performance measurement type of thing. I don't think size is of a concern for it.I do think size is of concern (even today with TB size disks), think of containers or small/embedded systems. See the recent developments regarding docker and alpine.
+1it applies also to virtualization where it makes a difference on *very expensive* redundant strorage if every software left and right wastes 1,2 or more MB of diskspace and you need more reserved space for updates and the rest of the system
Atm we have those three options: 1/ don't enable a feature to keep the footprint down 2/ enable the feature but split it into a separate package → risk of balkanizing across distros 3/ enable the feature but ship it in the main package → accept the constant increase in footprint
or do what every other software-project does: use shared libraries below /usr/libexec
As for some background: we recently got a recent in Debian to enable and ship the systemd-sysusers binary [1] as this is apparently required by rkt now. We don't make use of systemd-sysusers in Debian, so this would mean an additional 300K on every installation which is wasted for the majority of users. The alternative is to split it off, which is not too compelling either. Question is, why systemd-sysusers is such a large binary in the first place for such trivial functionality. And maybe we can address that. Regards, Michael [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823322
on Fedora 23 systemd has 26 M disk spacefrankly i have systems with 650 MB on the rootfs and so systemd alone has 4% of the complete virtual machine
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