Hello everyone,

today we finally dropped gcc and gcc-c++ from the buildroot. This made 12 packages go away along with 134MB installed size. This means that you need to add gcc/gcc-c++ in the BuildRequires (guidelines stated this for few years but not many were following them).

Also Mark fixed bug today which was pulling in systemd in the buildroot which was pulling gnutls/libgcrypt/nettle and stuff like that. I don't have exact numbers what we saved here.

But looking into simple package build for f28 and f29 I see some nice trend.

F28:
DEBUG util.py:439:  Install  179 Packages
DEBUG util.py:439:  Total download size: 146 M
DEBUG util.py:439:  Installed size: 570 M

F29:
DEBUG util.py:439:  Install  144 Packages
DEBUG util.py:439:  Total download size: 87 M
DEBUG util.py:439:  Installed size: 425 M

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Thanks for attention!
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-Igor Gnatenko