remove i386 from foreign arch on server install?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sat Feb 15 14:56:13 UTC 2014


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 02:19:10PM +0000, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 09:03:17AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote:
> > Fair.  However, the 40M of space *is* permanent waste.
> 
> In addition, we're promoting doing things in containers more and more -
> particularly in server deployments. The 40M gets multiplied by the
> number of containers you have on a system. And currently, we end up
> fetching this for each container, too.

These are separate problems; there's no intrinsic reason why the
defaults for a container should have to be the same as the defaults on a
bare-metal installation.  In fact, given how LXC templates work, if they
are the same it's because somebody made an explicit choice to that
effect.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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