On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 12:29:55PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Matthew Miller (mattdm@fedoraproject.org) said:
ec2/fedora-18-x86_64-ec2.ks | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) New commits: commit 4253110dc925b4ed9aed576e88f2d5c6225c039b Author: Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org Date: Thu Nov 8 22:33:28 2012 -0500 install binutils initially and then remove, so dracut can strip the initramfs
That's just weird. How much does that actually save us?
It turns out "not anything". The initramfs turns out to be the same size with binutils installed and not. I was just testing to see if it would work and there was no real reason to push this one.