On Thu, 17.12.15 10:50, Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 04:40:16PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Nope, that's not the point to make. We ship tons of stuff you don't > > always need, but why is this stuff that matters? Is it *that* large? > > "Ship" and "require in the most minimal application-only install case" > are different. And "eh, it's not that large" is the approach that's > lead us to having a collective minimal set that is undeniably unwieldy. > If, instead, every package at the base level would take modularity as a > baseline principle, we'd be in a lot better and more flexible state. > > > Does it have such heavy otherwise unneeded deps? > > In some cases, yes. In others, it's deps that don't seem individually > heavy but they add up.
I am not sure I can read this any other way than "Nope, I won't be specific with numbers and stuff, I just have the 'feeling' that systemd is large and has huge deps". Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
