On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 10:36:34AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 27, Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Our major use case is cloud initial setup, image building, CI, buildds, all > > of which do not require any syncs, and can safely use eatmydata, for > > example; > > hence the enormous speed up. > I do not believe that it would be wise to optimize our packaging system > for the niche target of package development. > > In my experience as a cloud infrastructure provider, new systems are > cloned/instantiated from golden images and not from debootstrap or d-i.
Well, yes, you usually have _some_ cloud-provided image. But usually, people will use cloud-init to initialize their instances and install packages from in there, often using eatmydata. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en