On Wed, Jun 15, 2016, at 08:23 PM, Tim St. Clair wrote:
> Can we finally address this image size issue?
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/kubernetes-dev/zGMa4QkC_QE/gR43SztlBwAJ
>
> I've sent emails about it in the past, and adoption is moving fast.
There has been recent work on this:
https://lists.projectatomic.io/projectatomic-archives/atomic-devel/2016-February/msg00033.html
Basically it relies on RPM weakdeps. At this point, I'm not entirely
sure we can just take systemd and for that matter coreutils, etc. out of
the base image at least in a released stream.
It does seem viable to create a `centosmin` image that in some cases
uses different package builds (e.g. ensuring rpm doesn't pullrelatively
close in being min-coreutils + bash + yum. Some postprocessing on the
depchain such as deleting `.py{,c}` files etc. would help.
It looks like in CentOS 7 it's actually viable to create a container
with just `yum`, but in Fedora 23 at least `dnf` ends up pulling in a
whole lot of stuff including `systemd` which does get messy to address
in a single-source base without weakdeps.
