On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 4:18 PM Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Paul Bolle schreef op wo 02-12-2020 om 21:30 [+0100]: > > Currently there seem to be over 6000 texlive packages. (Quick and dirty > > measurements, sorry.) So splitting the kernel into an absurd number of > > packages for (obscure) modules isn't a no-no on principle. > > If I sort the installed packages on my laptop by size the kernel-core packages > don't even make it into the top 10. > > (It's a fun thing to do queries like that. glibc-all-langpacks is over 200M. I > wonder what it does. Now I know that iwl7260-firmware is 125M! Linux firmware > is almost 300M. Does Fedora support systems that are usable without it?) > > I'm guessing kernel-core and the various kernel-modules* packages total about > 120M. So why not dump everything in a single package? The larger your installation is, the larger the problem space you have. For things like VMs where you want to upload/copy them around, you incur transfer times, potentially networking costs, etc. At scale, small size increases add up to large costs. Fedora hasn't exactly taken off in the cloud or in a hyperscale fashion, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to address these things. The Minimization objective is a larger effort around what initially started the kernel-core/kernel-modules split to begin with. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
