Hi Peter, there is no technical reason to do this but I'm working in the aviation industry and there is the philosophy: put only things in the aircraft you really need. This should improve reliability and reduce vulnerability. I have to argue why I need a library/package and I'm having problems to argue why I need libX11 etc. The few megabytes are not my problem my problem it's the environment I'm working.
I would also love to do a simple "yum install couchdb" and let the package manager do the rest but I can't. Ingemar -----Original Message----- From: Peter Lemenkov [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thu 8/1/2013 8:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Reducing dependencies of couchdb-*.rpm 2013/8/1 Stock, Ingemar <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > I want to reduce package dependencies of couchdb. Is there any way to > get rid of some rpm packages? When I install couchdb on a fresh minimal > CentOS installation yum installs about 70 packages. Has anybody > experience with stripping down erlang to the required parts? You shouldn't do that. That's the point of packaging - automatic dependency tracking, functional consistency, and system reproducibility. Do you have any technical reasoning behind your intention? I mean maybe you concerned about additional few megabytes of HDD size, insecure packages within the dependency chain, or anything else. -- With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.
