On Wed, Oct 27 2021 at 05:37:01 PM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
-1 for this change, because it will consume file system space and
99.99%
of users don't need this feature at all.
That doesn't seem fair:
The overhead is about 200 bytes for each ELF object.
We have about overall 33200 files in `/usr/s?bin/` and about 36600
`.so` files (F35, single architecture,
results from `dnf repoquery -l 2>/dev/null | rg '^/usr/s?bin/' | sort
-u | wc -l`,
`dnf repoquery -l 2>/dev/null | rg '^/usr/lib64/.*\.so$' |sort -u|wc
-l`).
If we do this for the whole distro, we get 69800 × 200 = 13 MB.
For a typical installation, we can expect about 300–400 kB.
Thus the overhead of additionally used space is neglible (also see the
Feedback section for more discussion).
300-400 kB is completely negligible. Even the worst case 13 MB, if you
have installed every Fedora package, is negligible.