nia <[email protected]> writes: > There are quite a few large things in base.tgz ("large things" defined > as "dynamic binaries taking up a few megabytes") that are uncompressed > on the install ISO. > > Please note that this list was obtained by doing a quick ls of > various directories and is not supposed to be definitive. > > - named, in the (long) process of being replaced with unbound > - dhcpd > - racoon and ipsec tools > - atf > - iasl > - ioctlprint > > There are several options to proceed: > > 1. accelerate the replacement of BIND with unbound > 2. create a new 'servers' set containing BIND, dhcpd, etc > (sshd and postfix remaining in base) > 3. move atf to the 'comp' or 'tests' set > 4. move iasl, ioctlprint to the 'comp' set > 5. grow support for compressed ramdisks (volunteers?) > > Of these, 2), 3), 4) seem to be the ones that will cause the least > friction.
My take is that 4 sounds like a bugfix and should be done anyway. With 3, in theory the atf tools themselves are useful to users and not just for testing. Putting them in comp on one hand seems ok, but people should be able to run tests without comp. So I'm more or less ok with tests but not comp, but not excited about that change, and suspect others might not like it. For point 2, I'm sort of ok with a servers set, except that sshd should remain in base. I see the rest as "program you only want to run if the machine is acting like a server", more or less (except local named), and I see sshd as something that you normally want on every machine.
