Fabian Deutsch <fdeut...@redhat.com> writes: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <gscri...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> The removal caused some trouble: >>> - removing informations from drawbacks >>> - Making debugging - testing changes - very cumbersome >>> - Breaks "plugin" mechanisms of a surprising large number of tools >>> >>> In our next release we will finally re-introduce .py files again: >>> Bug 1233106 - [RFE] Remove all kernel, firmware, and .py file blacklisting >>> >>> I'd suggest to consider and not underestimate these factors. >> >> thanks for the feedbacks. Were .pyc files used instead of the .py >> version in oVirt? > > We dropped .py and .pyc files - so the .pyo files were kept. > >> IIUIC, pyc files maintain the same information as the >> original source file, while .pyo files are a optimized version that has >> not all the original content. Using the optimized version, I could >> strip 55 MB of space from the Fedora Atomic image, if I use .pyc then >> the reduction is only 27 MB. > > What about keeping .py and .pyo, and just drop .pyc?
That could be an option. The image size I got keeping .py and .pyo is 15 MB smaller than the original one. Regards, Giuseppe
