On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:19:13AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Of course, I'd love to see the Python run-time disappear from > "minimalist" systems too - you pretty much have to have 'gawk', 'sed' > and one of the shells so your command line is Turing complete even > without a "scripting language". Yeah, we've talked about this. It's hard, since we've used it as the system scripting language in Fedora for a long time. Notably, yum/dnf, cloud-init, and firewalld (this last not included in the cloud image, but there it is) use it. Additionally, there is a plan to port grubby, the kernel update helper, to Python as the current C code is hard to test and maintain. For the container image, I think this is solvable by having yum/dnf run externally to the managed container as a helper, and just plain not needing cloud-init or grubby. For host images, I think the best approach might be to make a minimal python package (possibly a parallel one rather than splitting the existing one) with _just_ the modules installed needed to run those programs. Right now, IDLE and 2to3 a significant portion of the python-libs installed on every system. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
