On 08/23/2012 06:56 AM, Nathan Scott wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Mark and I discussed putting an explicit dependency on the
> perl-PCP-PMDA package on the (core) pcp package. See the
> attached patch, for example. Something similar will also
> be done for the new python sub-package (if it turns not to
> not be simpler to just include that in the pcp rpm).
>
> This will remove one class of entirely-avoidable dependency
> issue (for the >20 perl PMDAs in pcp) - since perl & python
> are always installed on modern Linux distros, we couldn't
> foresee any issues.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts/concerns?
In SGI's ICE products we try to keep the compute node image small especially
when the OS is a tmpfs filesystem (and hence all in memory). The list that
drives the smallest image has pcp and python but not perl. Adding in
(I just reviewed for sles) all that would be needed would increase the
image size by something like 20MB. This is not a significant increase.
I believe most customers have much more robust environments so requiring
perl and python is not an issue.
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