On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:43:52AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 15.01.2013 01:34, schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: > > It doesn't. Graphical libraries are loaded only when used. > > > > Of course systemd-analyze is _packaged_ as dependent on graphical > > libraries, because the split to save a few megabytes on a server > > installation is not worth the maintainer's (or admin's) time. > > what developers often not see are cross-deps > > yum remove lib1 > package-cleanup --leavses --all > oh: "yum remove lib2 lib3 lib4" possible now > package-cleanup --leavses --all > oh: "yum remove lib5 lib6 lib7 lib8" is possible now > sometimes you can do this circle multiple times > > honestyl i have often seen such cross-deps freeing up > around 100 MB, on a virtual infrastructure multiplied > with 30 we are at 300 MB and additionally the benefit > besides only the storage is: C'mon, 100 MB? 12% of the size of gcc-debuginfo.amd64?
Zbyszek > * much faster dist-upgrades on all machines > * less troubles with fighting dependencies > > that said, in the last few years i freed up 25% on any of > my servers by look critical what is really isntalled, remove > anything unneeded and remove any cross-dependencie > > the difference finally is 3-5 minutes for a complete fedora > dist-upgrade and last but not least you reduce the potentially > exploitable code on your machines - the last years showed that > sooner or later nearly anything got exploitable _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
