Re: Fedora 23 cloud image (and, for that matter, minimal anything) bloat

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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 02:46:52PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 06:35:04PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > > > >5423400 xkeyboard-config  # really???? looks like a systemd dep chain
> > > > >involving plymouth
> > > > plymouth luckily is no hard dependency for anything
> > > "Involving plymouth" might have been wrong. libxkbcommon.so.0 looks
> > > like a direct dependency, from /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-localed.
> > Yes, libxkbcommon is used to validate the configuration set
> > with 'localectl set-keymap' or 'localectl set-x11-keymap'
> > (or directly through dbus api).
> 
> This is not relevant in most cloud images and in very, very few
> containers. Can we make the dependency optional in some way?

Not really. localed is simply linked to libxkbcommon.so, so it will
not run without. Anyway, libxkbcommon.rpm is 260kb, so some potential
(complicated) scheme to avoid a dependency simply does not seem worth
the trouble.

Zbyszek
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