> Python 3 traditionally in Fedora was built with a shared library
> libpython3.?.so and the final binary was dynamically linked against
> that shared library. This change is about creating the static library
> and linking the final python3 binary against it,
I oppose this change, because this is yet another size increase:
> As a negative side effect, when both libpython3.8.so and
> /usr/bin/python3.8 are installed, the filesystem footprint will be
> slightly increased (libpython3.8.so on Python 3.8.0, x86_64 is ~3.4M).
and while:
> OTOH only a very small amount of packages will depend on
> libpython3.8.so.
in practice, that does not help because some of those packages are installed
by default, e.g., the ones you mentioned being installed by default even on
the Docker image:
> *'''libcomps'''
> *'''libdnf'''
> *'''vim'''
but there are more, such as gdb, libreoffice, krita, boost, etc. that are
installed on various live images, and calamares, which is popular on
remixes. So all those images will be bloated as a result of your code
duplicating change.
In addition:
> By applying this change, libpython's namespace will be separated from
> Python's, so '''C extension which are still linked to libpython'''
> might experience side effects or break.
so compatibility is an issue too.
Kevin Kofler
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