Hi Alexander, After some research, these are the numbers I came up with for compiling core-image-minimal with python3-core:
Normal compilation: tar.bz2 - 6.6MB squashfs-xz - 6.1MB With my pyc-only patch: tar.bz2 - 5.8MB squashfs-xz - 5.2MB So that's about a 15% decrease in size. Again, this is for an image only with python3-core. Logically that would mean that if you had an image with more python packages it would be even a bigger percentage. Yishai Jaffe On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 5:12 PM Alexander Kanavin <alex.kana...@gmail.com> wrote: > Generally we slim down python installations by not installing all of > the standard library, and rather having precise dependencies for > specific modules. Can you illustrate the kind of space savings that > can be gained in actual numbers? > > Another issue is that this should be supported upstream and in the > wider python community. Is it? > > Alex > > On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 at 14:25, Federico Pellegrin <f...@evolware.org> > wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > Just as a small reference since I raised some doubts and questions in > Buildroot community on this: there has been also some troubles to > understand the correctness or not there (as I found some packages with > problems due to this source-less management) and this then sparked, besides > discussions in the Buildroot mailing list (roughly end of July / beginning > of August if someone interested searching there), also an issue to the > Python community, which albeit some discussion I think never arrived to a > concrete conclusion. This is the issue: > https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/95827 (see also the linked one > maybe) > > > > These are just my 2 cents to this discussion, then of course the Python > experts will probably chime in and describe the official/discussed position > of Yocto regarding to this, but just felt like mentioning that although > Buildroot is somehow offering this right now (and likely mostly works as > well!), it's not really a so clean and/or agreed solution. > > > > Cheers, > > Federico > > > > Il giorno dom 13 nov 2022 alle ore 13:55 Yishai Jaffe < > yishai1...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> > >> Hi, > >> I was wondering if there has been talk about support for source-less > python on an image. Installing py and pyc files doubles the size of python > on the rootfs. I can imagine this being implemented as an image feature. > >> I know that in buildroot it is supported. > >> Was this discussed and decided against? Is this an open issue? > >> I have a working patch that implements this. I can submit it for review. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Yishai Jaffe > >> Yishai Jaffe > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > >
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