On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 5:23 AM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > * John M. Harris, Jr.: > > > Anyone that has ever worked with CD images understands that every megabyte > > counts. > > It's clearly not a priority for Fedora. It wouldn't be too difficult to > replace glibc-all-langpacks with glibc-locale-source in the installer, > going from 26 MiB to less than 5 MiB compressed and from 208 MiB to > about 20 MiB uncompressed (which, as I understand it, would affect > memory requirements during installation). The proposal was rejected. >
It *is* a priority, but having less runtime scriptlets is a higher priority. Your proposal would force scriptlets to be added for handling langpacks everywhere. We're trying to drive towards statelessness, not more weird non-deterministic stateful things during installations and upgrades. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
