Luca Boccassi wrote:
Whether you follow it or not, it has happened, it is happening and it
will
keep happening, because for others it is perfectly logical and highly
desirable. So one can either stay here and complain all day long that
containers are bad and they are all doing them wrong, and if they only
listened to reason everything would be just perfect, or one can do
something to significantly improve the baseline for everybody at a cost so
ridiculously negligible that if the same standard were applied to compiler
updates or changing build flags or whatnot nothing would ever, ever
change.
The problem with your argument is that one "ridiculously negligible"
overhead and then another and then yet another etc. ends up accumulating and
we end up with minimum RAM and disk space requirements increased by a factor
of 10 (!) since the day Fedora was founded.
And yes, I also complain about the other sources of bloat. They all add up,
and they are all a problem. (For the build flags, I have been arguing for
ages that we should build with -Os rather than -O2.)
Kevin Kofler