Description of problem: Troy raised interesting points through mail, that we should take closer look: Hello, Adam and I are on the Fedora Minimization team.[1] One of the things we are doing is looking at a few key containers to figure out how/if we can get them smaller. I've been going through the mariadb container and found two main ways we could make it smaller. 1 - remove systemd from the container. It has already been approved [2] that packages no longer *have* to require systemd just because they have .service files. It has already been removed as a dependency of dnf, and because of that, the F31 and Rawhide images are already over 60M smaller.[3] mariadb-server depends on systemd, and thus, it's pulling that 60M back in. I've looked, and I believe systemd can safely be removed as a dependency. 2 - remove perl This is a little more complicated. It depends on your vision for the mariadb container. I saw that you moved all of your server perl scripts to mariadb-server-utils. That is great. But the problem is that mariadb has a couple of perl scripts as well, and mariadb-server depends on mariadb. If you feel that mariadb-server-utils are an important part of the container, then we can just let things be. If not, then the next question is, whether you feel mariadb (the client tools) are an important part of the container. If you feel they are, then we ask the question whether the two perl scripts in it can be put into a -utils sub-package. There is also the mariadb-server-backup, thats fairly big as well. But again, it depends on what your vision of the mariadb container is. What are your thoughts and ideas. Troy Dawson [1] - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/minimization/ [2] - https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/890 [3] - https://minimization.github.io/reports/report-base-releases--fedora-container-base.html
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 32 development cycle. Changing version to 32.
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