From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:58:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:58:06 -0400 Received: from UNASSIGNED.SKYNETWEB.COM ([64.23.55.10]:5914 "HELO mx.webmailstation.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:57:59 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Denis Perchine Organization: AcademSoft To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Will 2.6 require Python for any configuration ? (CML2) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:59:41 +0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.5] In-Reply-To: <20010822030807.N120@pervalidus> <20010823124109.S14302@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> In-Reply-To: <20010823124109.S14302@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010824020119.42D951FD7D@mx.webmailstation.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 24 August 2001 02:41, Tom Rini wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:26:33PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Rini writes: > You've said this before. :) Just how small of an 'embedded' system are > you talking about? I know of people who do compile a kernel now and > again on a 'small' system, for fun. On a larger (cPCI) system, I > don't see your point. If you can somehow transport the 21mb[1] bzip2 > kernel source to your system, you can transport python. If you're > porting to a brand new arch, there's still good tests before you > have shlib support (You've mentioned that before too I think). There is another point why having Python installed is a problem. Usually when you install a server you remove everything from it because of space, and security reasons. The main security concern is the less is installed the better security is. I always remove python from any servers I have. As I remove guile, forth, and other useless (in terms of server) languages. Now you tell me that I should have this bloat installed just to configure my kernel. Do not you think that it is too much? Current kernel does not require anything like this. -- Sincerely Yours, Denis Perchine ---------------------------------- E-Mail: dyp@perchine.com HomePage: http://www.perchine.com/dyp/ FidoNet: 2:5000/120.5 ----------------------------------