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> That means that for N cloud hosts Red Hat would have to potentially build N different patches for any update or security fix. Why would they have to do that?
by CaptSpify 11y ago
> That means that for N cloud hosts Red Hat would have to potentially build N different patches for any update or security fix.
Why would they have to do that? AFAIK, patches apply to packages, not the entire distro. If $package_x isn't installed, it doesn't get the patch. If it is installed, it does get the patch.
And for me, the concern isn't space, as much as running processes, and littered un-needed files.
- avar 11y agoIf you're concerned about either of those RHEL is not the distro for you. It has a bunch of running processes, some of them are even written in Python! Talk about unoptimal. Similarly it's not the smallest Linux distro by far. I think this whole line of argument is just some misplaced nostalgia for distro micro-optimization. It's not the mid-90s anymore. Space and CPU is cheap, you're not going to gain anything significant by trimming down your distro. If those things were actually important you wouldn't be using Azure in the first place.