OLPC & package dependency growth

[Rahul Sundaram]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:42 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 
>> I guess some of these extra dependency chains are hard to predict/avoid
>> but it would be good to raise awareness here. It would also be great if
>> people could help us slim our F9 builds back to acceptable sizes, since
>> we are nearing release-candidate phase.
> 
>>From what I recall, we (or rather the olpc team) did quite a bit of
> dependency pruning back in the F7 timeframe to get the olpc image as
> small as it it. Realistically, you'll have to keep fighting this by
> filing bugs and pointing out package split candidates, since these deps
> have the tendency to grow back.

Right. Live CD's tend to keep things somewhat in check but this is a 
ongoing process and constant struggle.

Rahul