On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:00 AM, drago01 drago01@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Sandro "red" Mathys red@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:37:42 +0100 Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:
in general you need to multiply the wasted space for each instance
Exactly, you usually have hundreds or even thousands of instances running. Sure, "every MB counts" isn't to be taken literal here, maybe I should rather have said "every 10 MB count".
I suggested this once before and got no real answer but if you are so disk space constrained wouldn't file system compression do what you want instead of trying to micoroptimize every package?
Because file system compression requires cpu cycles (i.e. cpu power and time) and I think they are more valuable to most users than storage. So, not optimizing the packages would probably be preferable over compressing the file system. But trimmed down packages need less space but no additional cpu cycles so it's a win-win from the user's perspective.
-- Sandro