Fedora 23 cloud image (and, for that matter, minimal anything) bloat

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.qcow2:       151M
> Fedora-Cloud-Base-23_Beta-20150915.x86_64.qcow2:  275M
>
> In just one year — 82% more awesome?
>
> I'd really like this to stay below 200MB as a competitive threshold.
> Or, if we're going to be bigger than that, be bigger for REASONS, not
> just accretion.
>
> tl;dr: grub2 is a lot to blame, but there seem to be some new
> questionable dep chains from systemd, and general dep growth across the
> board.

It's worth pointing out that your griping about grub2 "growth" seems
misleading.  The sizes of the grub2 packages did not change between
F22 and F23.  What seems to have happened is that the cloud images
added the grub2 packages, which weren't there in F22.

josh