On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 12:31:15PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> * https://github.com/vmware/tdnf this might help us to go another step > >> closer to remove Python stack from the cloud image.* Having a better > > We need to talk to Peter Jones about plans to rewrite grubby in Python. > > I'm very sympathetic to his wish to have it no longer be in C, but if > > we _really_ are moving to getting python out.... > Er, can you elaborate on this desire to get python out? I'm kind of > confused. Particularly about why grubby is such a concern. If you > don't have python, you don't have yum/dnf which means updating your > kernel in your cloud image at _runtime_ is a PITA. If you aren't Well, see above — tdnf is python-free dnf (from which you could bootstrap to the full one). > updating your kernels at runtime and are instead relying on the whole > image to be respun (ala Atomic or otherwise) then you don't need > grubby anyway and it doesn't matter what language it's written in. And maybe that's the best path. > This really kind of baffles me. I would love to hear the reasoning > behind it. I think because it's one of the biggest and most complex things in minimal. -- 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
