Fedora 23 cloud image (and, for that matter, minimal anything) bloat
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
dominik at greysector.net
Tue Sep 22 12:10:05 UTC 2015
On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 03:26, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Matthew Miller
> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
[...]
> > But *that* said, the current packaging means that grub2 adds 70MB on
> > disk — about 12% of the entire cloud image. I'm not saying grub2 is
> > evil, just that this is a big portion of the gain and is worth
> > attacking in order to reverse it. I talked briefly to Peter Jones and
> > he says there's quite a bit which can be done there, if going back to
> > extlinux doesn't seem like a viable option.
>
> These are needed on BIOS systems
> grub2-tools is 7MiB
Installed size is actually 36MB.
/usr/sbin/grub2-sparc64-setup is 2MB and probably doesn't work on
anything else than ppc64(le).
/usr/sbin/grub2-macbless is also 2MB and probably doesn't work on non-Macs
> grub2 is 3.8MiB
>
> These are needed on UEFI systems
> shim-signed is 633KiB
> grub2-efi is 837KiB
>
> So, I'm not sure where 70MB is coming from.
[...]
Matt was talking about 70MB on disk (installed size), not rpm package size.
Regards,
Dominik
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