On 10/15/13 at 03:21pm, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:14:13AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > > Please take prelink behind the barn and shoot it. Thanks. > > > > ... > > > > How can we have this discussion? We have had reports of numbers showing > > no real gain. We know it affects ASLR negatively and complicates FIPS > > engineering. > > > > Why haven't we at least reached a compromise where prelink is _optional_ > > and not installed per default? It seems currently to be part of the > > fedora live install (and the rhel workstation installs) > > This mail is just a pre-cursor to proposing it be removed. When prelink > was added by default, the justification was the performance benefits to > startup. To justify removing it, we just need to collect data to show > that those performance benefits no longer exist, with current hardware > and software combination in Fedora. That is what this email thread > is seeking to confirm. So assuming no one comes forward to show some > incredible benefit(s) of prelink, a proposal to kill it by default > will surely follow. I have created a FESCo ticket titled "Don't enable prelink by default in Fedora". Please see https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1183 URL. -- Dhiru -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
