Hello, On Mon 16 Nov 2020 at 04:12AM +01, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2020-11-07 at 13:30:13 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Could I ask you to explain your wanting to reduce the Essential set for >> the sake of small installation size in more detail, including some >> numbers, please? It would be good to get to the bottom of Bill's worry >> about this change, but in addition, I would like to see a stronger >> positive case. > > I'm not sure about Josh, but I think the main reasons for wanting to > reduce the essential set are: > > - Making chroots/containers slimmer, which can have a substantial > impact when needing lots of them, where even few MiB can make a > difference. > - Making bootstrapping (build and installation) in general easier, > even though for the former these packages also need to then > be ideally removed from the build-essential set too. Thank you for this, but I was hoping for some more specifics. For example, what are some examples of large Essential: yes packages that might actually, in practice, be removable? -- Sean Whitton
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