Hi, On 12/11/2017 03:59 PM, Carlos Rodrigues wrote: > Also, I regularly use VMs based on other distributions for this > purpose as well. Currenly, among Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu, all of > them keep the man pages in their standard images. I don't know if any > of those provides an alternative slimmer image where they do more than > just leaving complete packages out, but that's certainly an option. This is very solid point. > Provisioning your own images is an alternative, yes. But doesn't that > defeat the point of these images? Aren't they supposed to be generic > images to cover most use cases? I think spinning short-lived VMs for > interactive use is certainly a common use case. That's the use case > I'm arguing for. Fedora generic (generic/fedora27) image is about 800M. Only cloud images from https://alt.fedoraproject.org/cloud/ are so light. > Some of the files in the "/usr/share/doc" may be required for > compliance with some packages' licensing during distribution. I have > no concrete examples of this, it's just something that occured to me. I never heard about that, but it might be true. I made some quick comparison with fedora27 cloud image. my_query_format="%{NAME}\n" && rpm --qf $my_query_format -qa | sort And found out that there is package that probably should be removed - centos-logos, it's about 22MB when installed, probably less for image size. rpm -qa --queryformat '%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -rn CentOS comes with linux-firmware Fedora without. This package is about 126M when installed. I don't have any knowledge about indispensability of this package. Bests, Alex -- GPG INFO: 6D5A4CAF 2016-05-17