<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-10 15:59 GMT+02:00 Ryan Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rybrown@redhat.com" target="_blank">rybrown@redhat.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 07/10/2015 09:48 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 07:52:29AM -0500, Major Hayden wrote:<br>
>> Whenever I've spoken with customers about what they want from an OS<br>
>> in a virtual machine, they want it to contain a small package set<br>
>> that lets them run their automation on top of it (i.e. Ansible, Chef,<br>
>> Puppet). Removing Python from that image would be a serious curveball<br>
>> since most people expect to have Python available on any system<br>
>> running yum/dnf.<br>
><br>
> Yeah, I'm willing to back down on wanting to remove Python.<br>
<br>
</span>+1 It'd be a lot of work (rewriting dnf/whatever, maintaining both<br>
codebases, etc) for (relatively) little gain.<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb"><br></span></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>Depends: for end-users, it could mean a smaller bill each month on storage.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But I agree that we're not ready to drop python and it's *unlikely* before a long time.<br></div><div>I also agree that it shouldn't be a high/medium priority task.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As for dnf, there are discussion upstream to rewrite it in C, VMWare has also written<br></div><div>a drop-in replacement for dnf based on hawkey/librepo that could be considered.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The more problematic component is cloud-init.<br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="im HOEnZb">
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Ryan Brown / Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc.<br>
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