Am 17.12.2015 um 16:57 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
On Thu, 17.12.15 10:50, Matthew Miller (mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org)
wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 04:40:16PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> Nope, that's not the point to make. We ship tons of stuff you don't
>> always need, but why is this stuff that matters? Is it *that* large?
>
> "Ship" and "require in the most minimal application-only install
case"
> are different. And "eh, it's not that large" is the approach
that's
> lead us to having a collective minimal set that is undeniably unwieldy.
> If, instead, every package at the base level would take modularity as a
> baseline principle, we'd be in a lot better and more flexible state.
>
>> Does it have such heavy otherwise unneeded deps?
>
> In some cases, yes. In others, it's deps that don't seem individually
> heavy but they add up.
I am not sure I can read this any other way than "Nope, I won't be
specific with numbers and stuff, I just have the 'feeling' that
systemd is large and has huge deps"
read it they way: *anything* which is *not missed* when it's not
installed should not be installed - period - there is nothing to dicuss
about