New joyride build 1452

Marcus Leech mleech at nortel.com
Thu Dec 20 14:56:27 EST 2007


Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> :-)
>
> I also disapprove adding bulky packages to our builds just for sake of
> debugging.  In this case, this is said to be only temporary until we
> have shaken the most serious networking problems.
>
> There is still plenty of opportunity for debloating our images, and
> I'm willing to pursue it, but it is not clear if this is a valued goal.
>
>   
While I'm sympathetic to removing "bulk", I'm someone who developed his
first networking
  stack at the age of 16 or 17  around 1980.  I think we shouldn't rush
too hastily in making
  assumptions about what 12-year-old budding software genii will
actually need.




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