On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:31:05PM -0500, Fredrich Maney wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Edward Pilatowicz > <edward.pilatow...@sun.com> wrote: > > well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother. > > disk space is cheap. > > ed > > For the same reasons that you don't install unneeded packages in the > first place: security, stability and space. >
imho, most of the time these are false optimizations that are not worth the risk and/or trouble. wrt space, disk space is cheap. i'd also recommend installing your zones on compressed zfs filesystems, which will automatically reduce the space used. wrt stability, i don't see how having unused stuff on disk has any impact on stability. it's more likely that removing stuff will reduce stability by accidently removing something you might need in the future. wrt security. unless there is some suid binaries in the packages your removing, i don't really see how security is impacted. of course it's all about tradeoffs. if you have infinite free labor/time, and disk space is all that matters to you, then feel free to burn that labor/time eliminating everything you don't need. ed _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
