On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 04:50:06PM +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
It's written in Python and so what? Interpreted languages like
Perl and
Bash are widely used in Linux world to implement many tools. I don't buy
argumentation that if something is not implemented in C it sucks.
It's not that it "sucks", it's that it requires significantly more
resources. In a minimal install, firewalld is by far the largest memory
consumer out-of-the-box, which is very wasteful in the 99.99% of the time
where it isn't doing anything.
And, the python stack is a meaningfully-large portion of the minimal
install. Right now, that's unavoidable because of yum, but in the not-so-far
future dnf may make it possible to remove that. If we're putting in _more_
python-dependent infrastructure code, we'll never get there.
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