Re: Bug#387688: Add gnupg as apt dependency in Squeeze to be able to solve #387688 in Squeeze+1?
* Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> [100815 13:31]:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:37:15AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> > currently apt depends on debian-archive-keyring which depends on gnupg.
> > It has been proposed to remove the latter dependency in #387688, this
> > would save about 5 MB of disk space in a sid debootstrap.
>
> I'm still not sure if I buy this argument. After all it would leave the
> debootstrap without apt (which is the current default behaviour, I know).
> How useful is this, really? I know that apt is not strictly necessary, as you
> can get all deps installed by debootstrap as well, but you cannot even pull in
> updates. What's the use case?
You can use the apt on the host system to upgrade the packages in the
chroot.
On slow systems having less stuff to install for a chroot makes
chroot creation significantly faster[1], on fast systems chroots there
is not much use in reusing chroots anyway, so being able to check more
missing dependencies is an advantage while not being able to update
chroots no big disadvantage.
Bernhard R. Link
[1] Though our current handling of "essential" bloats chroots quite a bit.
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