[Mageia-dev] [RFC] debloating minimal system

Wed Sep 14 15:00:56 CEST 2011

Le 14/09/2011 14:23, 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.
+Well, a suggest is OK for me. People concerned about minimal system can 
+can usually figure how to not install suggested package.
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #173:
+
+Recursive traversal of loopback mount points
+