ubuntu-core image hygiene

Mark Shuttleworth mark at ubuntu.com
Wed Sep 14 23:52:15 UTC 2016


On 14/09/16 05:29, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> I am happy to report that thanks to the switch i was also able to drop
> about 50 lines of awful hacks from the build system that injected
> packages at build time in an undocumented way :)
>
> Now to the more exciting bits ... 
>
> Dropping all grub bits from the amd64 ubuntu-core snap got us from a
> 75.1MB package size down to 66.9MB ...
>
> Likewise the i386 snap went from 72.1MB down to 64.9MB
>
> I know that a bunch of people will actually celebrate that massive size
> reduction (hey manik :) ).

Cleaner, faster, better. Thanks Ogra :)

Mark

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