Luca Boccassi wrote:
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
If I am reading this correctly, when Fedora was first released in 2003, common hard drive
capacity was around 80 GB:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Hard_drive_capacity_o...
Today, 1 TB+ hard drives are common. Hence, even taking your x10 figure at face value, the
growth of Fedora's requirements for disk space has not matched the growth of disk
space availability, but it has stayed below, hence it's a win-win - you get the
benefit and the cost is more than absorbed by hardware improvements.
Furthermore, given an installation with the entire RPM universe installed (iirc) taking
~10 GBs, with a penalty of ~10 MBs, you'd need approximately 9000 (nine thousand)
proposals "like this one here and there" to get the x10 you speak of. If I am
reading correctly, there are about ~50 fesco proposals per Fedora release
(
https://pagure.io/fesco/roadmap?status=all), so it would take 180 releases over 90 years
to get there by accumulating proposals like this one.