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Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var

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On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 10:11:46 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 at 01:36:25 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Our time is worth more than 80K or whatever it is of disk space in
a
> > throw-away container.
> 
> I agree that the systemd maintainers' time is a limited resource that
we
> should not waste, but that size estimate is off by a couple of orders
of
> magnitude. On amd64, aptitude tells me systemd-standalone-tmpfiles
and
> -sysusers are about 700K of Uncompressed Size between them, while the
> full systemd and libsystemd-shared packages add up to about 15M. For
> genuinely throwaway containers, yes, it's not worth optimizing this,
> but for containers that will be archived in a registry and/or kept
> running longer-term, that seems like enough that maintainers of
Docker
> containers, etc. will want to use the standalone binaries if they are
> sufficient for the container's needs.
> 
> (This is ignoring any extra library dependencies that might be
required by
> systemd and libsystemd-shared but unnecessary for the standalone
binaries;
> if there are any, then obviously the effective size delta increases.)

Sure, but again, those special cases that really care about that
particular angle can simply adjust their dependencies accordingly,
there's nothing stopping them from doing so. It does not need to be the
default.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-06-04 13:20 +0200
  Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2023-06-04 16:10 +0200
    Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-06-05 02:40 +0200
      Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2023-06-05 11:00 +0200
        Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-06-05 13:20 +0200
        Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-06-13 17:50 +0200
          Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-06-13 18:20 +0200
          Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 18:20 +0200
            Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> - 2023-06-13 18:40 +0200
              Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> - 2023-06-13 19:50 +0200
                Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 20:10 +0200
          Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 18:40 +0200
            Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-06-13 20:20 +0200
              Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 21:00 +0200
                Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-06-13 21:10 +0200
                Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 21:30 +0200
                Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-06-13 23:20 +0200
      Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2023-06-05 11:20 +0200
        Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-06-05 13:20 +0200
    Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2023-06-05 14:20 +0200
    Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2023-06-06 13:10 +0200
      Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-06-06 14:10 +0200
        Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-06-07 05:50 +0200
          Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2023-06-07 12:40 +0200
            Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-06-07 13:00 +0200
          Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-06-07 12:40 +0200
      Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2023-06-13 15:10 +0200
        Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> - 2023-06-13 19:10 +0200
          Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 20:00 +0200
            Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 21:50 +0200
              Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 22:00 +0200
                Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2023-06-13 22:10 +0200
                Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> - 2023-06-13 22:30 +0200

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