On 11/12/2012 07:53 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:53:13PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
I really don't understand why a core system component such as firewalld is
implemented in Python!
Here, I mostly don't see the reason for it to be running all the time.
Couldn't it be dbus activated, and then go away when it's not needed? Then,
it would matter less what it was written in.
It could be argued that python is more suited to long lived programs:
$ time /bin/true
real 0m0.002s
$ time python -c True
real 0m0.049s
$ time python3 -c True
real 0m0.165s
> And for reducing space use: I think it might also be nice to break python
> 2to3 and idle out of the python-libs package.
splitting python-libs (25MB here), seems worthwhile.
python-libs can bb changed to a subpackage that just depends on
various split subpackages, and then as needed various packages
like yum etc. can adjust dependencies to require just the
subpackages they need.
I remember doing a dist of python for an embedded system
that was 2.1MB in total and was enough to support cherrypy.
cheers,
Pádraig.
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