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Re: [Qemu-devel] why we build only some optional modules as modules?
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Fam Zheng |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] why we build only some optional modules as modules? |
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Sun, 6 Apr 2014 08:52:11 +0800 |
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On Sat, 04/05 18:29, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> A quick (hopefully) question.
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> 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? :)
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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