On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <gscri...@redhat.com> wrote: > Fabian Deutsch <fdeut...@redhat.com> writes: > >> 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? > > That could be an option. The image size I got keeping .py and .pyo is > 15 MB smaller than the original one.
Nice. Not as much as 55MB, but still a win. - fabian
