From: "Ville Skyttä" <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi>
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 3:03:24 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora 23 cloud image (and, for that matter, minimal anything) bloat
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi> wrote:
>
> BTW I just had a peek into some Arch Linux Python 3.5 packages, and it
> seems they contain *no* identical *.pyc and corresponding *.opt-1.pyc
> files. This is bad news wrt the hardlinking. I haven't found any
> *.opt-2.pyc files to play with, so I don't know what's the situation
> with them.
Managed to fiddle around some more and looks like the above is a false
concern, many *.pyc, *.opt-1.pyc and *.opt-2.pyc are identical.
So,
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/16
Is it? See my next email, Python 3.5.0 RPM seems ~50% bigger right now, unless
I'm making some silly mistake, and from what I see *.opt-2.pyc is nearly always
different from the other ones.