[Mageia-dev] [RFC] debloating minimal system

Wed Sep 14 14:48:25 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 14:23:11, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> On 14 September 2011 14:04, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> 
+wrote:
+> > Le 14/09/2011 13:40, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> >> Likewise due to widespread suggests among perl modules, we bring quite
+> >> a lot of perl modules:
+> >> urpmi ->  perl-Hal-Cdroms ->  Net-DBus ->  XML-Twig ->  XML-Parser ->
+> >>  LWP ->  perl-libwww-perl ->  HTTP::Negotiate ->  HTTP::Negotiate ->
+> >> HTTP::Message
+> > 
+> > Automatic dependencies computing result... The algorithm used here can't
+> > figure if a module used anywhere in the source is always used, or only in
+> > specific occasion.
+> > 
+> > I see two potential links that could get turned in soft dependencies
+> > here: - urpmi ->  perl-Hal-Cdroms, but urpmi should probably get
+> > modified to ensure a graceful failure if the user tries to use a cdrom,
+> > while Hal::Cdroms is not installed.
+> 
+> It's already a suggests and urpmi already handles smoothly its absence.
+> But we could remove altogether that suggests and only install it in case
+> of DVD install.
+
+I don't know about this one specifically, but couldn't there be 'no-suggests' 
+option (named for example "install only strong dependencies") in the 
+installer, under the form where you select the kind of packages you want ?
+
+Samuel
+