On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Jan Kurik <jkurik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > = Proposed System Wide Change: Removing Perl from Build Root = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_Root_Without_Perl > > Change owner(s): > * Jitka Plesníková <jplesnikATredhatDOTcom> > * Petr Písař <ppisarATredhatDOTcom> > > This change aims to removing Perl from minimal build root. > > == Detailed Description == > When building a package in the Fedora build system (Koji), a > predefined set of packages together with their dependencies is always > installed. This is called minimal build root and it occupies about 527 > MB now. In order to make it smaller, perl-generators dependency will > be removed from rpm-build package. This effectively removed Perl > packages from minimal build root (about 20 MB now). Can you elaborate on why a smaller buildroot is desirable? This description is stating the what of the proposal, and partly the how, but not the why. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
