On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Jan Kurik <jkurik(a)redhat.com> wrote:
= Proposed System Wide Change: Removing Perl from Build Root =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_Root_Without_Perl
Change owner(s):
* Jitka Plesníková <jplesnikATredhatDOTcom>
* Petr Písař <ppisarATredhatDOTcom>
This change aims to removing Perl from minimal build root.
== Detailed Description ==
When building a package in the Fedora build system (Koji), a
predefined set of packages together with their dependencies is always
installed. This is called minimal build root and it occupies about 527
MB now. In order to make it smaller, perl-generators dependency will
be removed from rpm-build package. This effectively removed Perl
packages from minimal build root (about 20 MB now).
Can you elaborate on why a smaller buildroot is desirable? This
description is stating the what of the proposal, and partly the how,
but not the why.
josh