[Mageia-dev] [RFC] debloating minimal system

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 14 September 2011 14:04, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 14/09/2011 13:40, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
>>
>> Likewise due to widespread suggests among perl modules, we bring quite
>> a lot of perl modules:
>> urpmi ->  perl-Hal-Cdroms ->  Net-DBus ->  XML-Twig ->  XML-Parser ->  LWP
>> ->  perl-libwww-perl ->  HTTP::Negotiate ->  HTTP::Negotiate ->
>> HTTP::Message
>
> Automatic dependencies computing result... The algorithm used here can't
> figure if a module used anywhere in the source is always used, or only in
> specific occasion.
>
> I see two potential links that could get turned in soft dependencies here:
> - urpmi ->  perl-Hal-Cdroms, but urpmi should probably get modified to
> ensure a graceful failure if the user tries to use a cdrom, while
> Hal::Cdroms is not installed.

It's already a suggests and urpmi already handles smoothly its absence.
But we could remove altogether that suggests and only install it in case
of DVD install.

> - XML-Parser ->  LWP, which is probably only used for validating against
> remote grammars.