On 10/31/2014 05:54 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > Dear all, > > Should we go on stripping down upstream tarballs from stuff we don't use > when there is some substantial gain? > See http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17169 (GCC) and > http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15015 (MPIR). > We can debate forever on when the gain becomes substantial in comparison > with running a script automating the task when it exists or crafting a > new one surely based on other ones hen it does not already exist... > It can also be a good thing to just ship upstream tarball without any > modification (stripping down, recompression, renaming) for better > tracability and security. > > Whatsoever I think this should be discussed here. >
+1 for vanilla. Bundling everything was an early mistake, leaving the window open and letting flies in. But then we bought frogs to kill the flies. The frogs bred, and we got snakes to kill the frogs. Weasels took care of the snakes, and wolves took care of the weasels. These days we're adding bears to mitigate our wolf problem. Any progress in the other direction is progress. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
