On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <gscri...@redhat.com> wrote: >> The removal caused some trouble: >> - removing informations from drawbacks >> - Making debugging - testing changes - very cumbersome >> - Breaks "plugin" mechanisms of a surprising large number of tools >> >> In our next release we will finally re-introduce .py files again: >> Bug 1233106 - [RFE] Remove all kernel, firmware, and .py file blacklisting >> >> I'd suggest to consider and not underestimate these factors. > > thanks for the feedbacks. Were .pyc files used instead of the .py > version in oVirt?
We dropped .py and .pyc files - so the .pyo files were kept. > IIUIC, pyc files maintain the same information as the > original source file, while .pyo files are a optimized version that has > not all the original content. Using the optimized version, I could > strip 55 MB of space from the Fedora Atomic image, if I use .pyc then > the reduction is only 27 MB. What about keeping .py and .pyo, and just drop .pyc? - fabian
