[Mageia-dev] [RFC] debloating minimal system

Wed Sep 14 15:28:45 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 14/09/11 13:29 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 14 September 2011 14:23, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> 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.
+> 
+> eg: cf the attachment
+
+Forgive the ignorance, but shouldn't be try and ditch hal? On all the
+systems I run, it's disabled...
+
+We should aim for it being completely nuked for mga2 if possible (there
+may still be some specific use-case blockers of course)
+
+Col
+
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