On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:59:46AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > But if you really are focused on getting to Essential: no, and not > necessarily changing the priority field, that certainly is a much more > easily achievable goal.
Of course, reducing minbase would be nice as well, but I agree with your assertion that there is lower hanging fruit to achieve that. I wouldn't rule out the super-exciting idea as a later optimization step though. > Yeah, I think the bigger question is whether any of a reduced minbase > needs lsattr/chattr in the first place. That's a very good question. You'll notice that packages such as resolvconf (lsattr/chattr), initramfs-core-tools (logsave) or initscripts (logsave) rely on e2fsprogs. Yet, I did find cases where removing e2fsprogs (with --allow-remove-essential) works. But the --allow-remove-essential flag feels super-exciting. :-( > To to be clear, the key metric for your specific goal is the reduction > of the _source_ package count since the goal is to reduce the number > of packages which have to be built by "hand" (or by script), before > you can create a sbuild/pbuild build chroot, correct? Correct. Unless I am mistaken, removing e2fsprogs from the build set also removes fuse. Helmut
