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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] debloating minimal system</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 14/09/11 13:29 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> On 14 September 2011 14:23, Thierry Vignaud &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Automatic dependencies computing result... The algorithm used here can't
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> figure if a module used anywhere in the source is always used, or only in
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> specific occasion.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I see two potential links that could get turned in soft dependencies here:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> - urpmi -&gt;  perl-Hal-Cdroms, but urpmi should probably get modified to
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> ensure a graceful failure if the user tries to use a cdrom, while
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Hal::Cdroms is not installed.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It's already a suggests and urpmi already handles smoothly its absence.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> But we could remove altogether that suggests and only install it in case
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> of DVD install.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> eg: cf the attachment
</I>
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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