Files OS Snap provides

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 05/11/15 15:24, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 05.11.2015, 09:10 -0500 schrieb Stéphane Graber:
>
>> Example manifest for wily:
>> http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/wily/20151104/wily-server-cloudimg-amd64.manifest
>>
>> Ignore the kernel and bootloader related packages from this manifest as
>> they're not included in the root.tar.xz tarball which we're using
> it is still rather gigantic compared to todays snappy rootfs (which is
> supposed to shrink even futher (i.e. removing bash at some point), also
> why are all the initrd handling bits in there i assume they could be
> ripped out too or does anything in lxc use them ? (i'm currently doing
> fine grained surgery to get them out of snappy rootfses where we do not
> want them at all since you will never generate an initrd at runtime) 

All good questions to be asking in the run-up to 16.04 LTS :)

We want it:

 * as tight as can be (I like the Recommends clean-up)
 * consistent across all the worlds we publish "headless Ubuntu"
 * delta's that are very small and documented ("no kernel where its not
needed")
 * appropriately useful out of the box ("ethtool, yes, vim, hmm")

The latter is a taste discussion, where we should defer to our leads, in
the end everyone will have opinions but our leads are leads for a
reason. We don't want to super-optimise for size, we just want to be
thoughtfully tight.

Mark