On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 10:42 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> > I'm trying to meet a (probably overly aggressive) personal goal of > >> > having zero NEW rawhide bugs (which are not Package Reviews) by the time > >> > of Fedora 10 GA. Along the way I thought I'd post some of the questions > >> > and issues I see while triaging these bugs so we can all learn. I > >> > encourage others to do the same. I've just knocked the list down to > >> > close to 500! > >> > > >> > If you want to join in and help the query for NEW rawhide bugs excluding > >> > package reviews is here: http://tinyurl.com/6llac8 > >> > > >> > Here is what I have so far: > >> > > >> > # Is there a general policy around using perl in pre/post ? > >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462996 > >> > >> Not that I know of, but it is good practice to avoid creating unneccessary > >> dependancies if there are alternatives, particularly if the choice is between > >> a large package & small package. Many perl scripts can be done just as well > >> with a short piece of awk/sed. This makes it much easier for people who want > >> to build minimal/small Fedora images because they don't unneccessarily > >> bring in the entire of Perl just for a %post script. Not that I want to single > >> out perl - the same rationale would apply to unneccessary use of python, if > >> the use in question could be easily written in awk/sed. > > > > Fully agreed, but ... consider both python and perl > > * are part of the base-packages Fedora is based on. > > * there are other dependencies adding much more bloat to "minimal > > installs" > > That's not entirely true. Check "Base" in comps.xml, check mock's default setup - It's a convention. > In fact its very easy now to run a complete > gnome desktop without perl at all. [..] > In fact its very easy now to run a complete > gnome desktop without perl at all. I'm doing it quite successfully > with rawhide on my eeePC I wish the same would apply to python, lua and others, it would spare quite a number of bytes on my i586, because I am using perl, but don't have much use for python ... > This will save a number of meg off the > build. Python is quite a bit harder as it is used in a lot of RH > systems packages. Right, a major problem with RH based distros. Ralf -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
