Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:26:27AM +0200, David Nielsen wrote:Can't the package be split? All 20MB can't be all[1] for the core interpreter. Just move the parts needed, and don't parse html or whatever wasn't taken from /usr in your init scripts.
Size : 21682516Bah harddrives are cheap.. unless you are running some kind of odd flash
based embedded system or another kind of limited setup depending on
python in this manner shouldn't be a problem, and if you do, I highly
doubt you would be running a vanilla Fedora Core.
Double bah to that. :)
Just because HDs are cheap isn't a good reason to dump another 20MB on the root filesystem.
But why does everything have to be python in fedora/RH? If you're going to change the init system, shouldn't it be something that can become a standard across the different distributions? There's already a prior implementation in ruby if you're going to go with a non-shell based init system.
Count one negative vote for all non-shell based init proposals.
[1] rpm -ql python|xargs du -sk|sort -n:
896 /usr/bin/python 912 /usr/lib/python2.3/xml 1260 /usr/lib/python2.3/email 1476 /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings 1772 /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/japanese 1788 /usr/lib/python2.3/distutils 2272 /usr/lib/python2.3/idlelib 3460 /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload 44168 /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages 67744 /usr/lib/python2.3
