Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

Bohuslav Kabrda bkabrda at redhat.com
Tue Jul 23 06:45:52 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:24:22AM -0400, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> > 3) Making all livecd packages depend on Python 3 by default (and
> > eventually getting rid of Python 2 from livecd) - this will also require
> > switching from Yum to DNF as a default, that is supposed to support Python
> 
> I have a concern about bloating @core and by extension the cloud image.
> Right now, python is about 5% of the total on-disk usage. I'd hate to see
> that go to 10%. Therefore, I'd like to see a goal of making the transition
> for usage in the base cloud image go entirely from python2 to python3 in
> one release cycle.
> 
> (Roughly, that's @core + cloud-init, which isn't currently on your list.)
> 

Doing everything in one shot sounds reasonable from this POV, I'll try to put this into my plan (I'll go through cloud-init the same way I went through livecd and post my findings here).

> 
> --
> Matthew Miller  ☁☁☁  Fedora Cloud Architect  ☁☁☁  <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>

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Regards,
Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda.


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