On 09/20/2013 05:12 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 09/20/2013 02:15 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 04:50:06PM +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
It's written in Python and so what? Interpreted languages like Perl and
Bash are widely used in Linux world to implement many tools. I don't buy
argumentation that if something is not implemented in C it sucks.
It's not that it "sucks", it's that it requires significantly more
resources. In a minimal install, firewalld is by far the largest memory
consumer out-of-the-box, which is very wasteful in the 99.99% of the time
where it isn't doing anything.
And, the python stack is a meaningfully-large portion of the minimal
install. Right now, that's unavoidable because of yum, but in the
not-so-far
future dnf may make it possible to remove that. If we're putting in
_more_
python-dependent infrastructure code, we'll never get there.
Do you have list somewhere of python dependent code in the core/baseOS?
JBG
Just ran a minimal install on a box here. Ended up with about 310
packages and a
rpm -q --whatrequires "python(abi)" --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort
gives me this list:
authconfig
dbus-python
firewalld
libselinux-python
newt-python
pycairo
pygobject2
pygobject3-base
pygpgme
pygtk2
pyliblzma
python-decorator
python-iniparse
python-pycurl
python-slip
python-slip-dbus
python-urlgrabber
pyxattr
rpm-python
yum
yum-metadata-parser
So there's quite a bit of other stuff that still requires python as well
apart from firewalld.
Thanks & regards, Phil
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