On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Matthew Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:28:49AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:16:21AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >> > cloud-init pulls in some, um, not exactly minimal stuff. python-cheetah? >> > (which then brings in, for example, freetype...) >> and python-imaging, and python-pygments. > > All told, cloud-init and dependencies add 50MB to the on-disk size of the > current F18 cloud image I'm working on. > > Graphics and templating languages. Plus xfsprogs. And a large amount of > selinux stuff. And libcgroup, which despite its name is a collection of > (somewhat klunky) utilities for something actually handled better by > systemd. > > Cloud-init is nifty, but this seems like a kitchen sink of random stuff. > Opinions, everyone? Should this go in the EC2 cloud image? Should it go in > the downloadable one? Should we offer options? Should we have something more > lightweight which just pulls in ssh keys?
I could see an argument for separating some of the cloud-init plugins into subpackages. Of course, then someone is going to request that cloud-init be executed in such a way that it can install packages and then reread its configuration & load newly installed plugins. That'll be fun. :-) _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
