From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWbJn-0006zy-5t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:52:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWbJh-0004hp-0M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:52:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WWbJg-0004ec-O6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:52:08 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 08:52:11 +0800 From: Fam Zheng Message-ID: <20140406005211.GA1858@T430.redhat.com> References: <5340134C.3040408@msgid.tls.msk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5340134C.3040408@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] why we build only some optional modules as modules? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Tokarev Cc: qemu-devel On Sat, 04/05 18:29, Michael Tokarev wrote: > A quick (hopefully) question. > > Why build-as-modules only enabled for a few optional modules only, > why not build as modules everything, to reduce common executable > size? Or is it not a concern anymore at our disk sizes? :) > The original demand was to reduce package dependencies of distribution QEMU, hence not everything is (planned to be) modularized. But there is no blocking reason to turn other things to modules as well, AFAICT. Thanks, Fam