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LXD snap contains duplicated copies of some python modules
The following Python modules are duplicated between LXD's snap and core24:
$ grep -Fxf <(ls -1 /snap/lxd/current/lib/python3/dist-packages/) <(ls -1 /snap/core24/current/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/)
certifi
certifi-2023.11.17.egg-info
chardet
chardet-5.2.0.dist-info
idna
idna-3.6.dist-info
PyYAML-6.0.1.dist-info
requests
requests-2.31.0.egg-info
urllib3
urllib3-2.0.7.dist-info
_yaml
yaml
Ideally, those would be removed from LXD's snap and the PYTHONPATH would be augmented to include the /snap/coreXY/current/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/. Doing that should avoid issues like https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/code-scanning/693 and https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/code-scanning/694
@simondeziel is this still an issue ?
Yes it is but I have not had a chance to look into it. When I get there, we should be able to save ~2.4MiB (before xz compression):
$ { cd /snap/lxd/current/lib/python3/dist-packages/; du -shc $(grep -Fxf <(ls -1 /snap/lxd/current/lib/python3/dist-packages/) <(ls -1 /snap/core24/current/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/)); }
1.5K certifi
4.0K certifi-2023.11.17.egg-info
1.1M chardet
5.5K chardet-5.2.0.dist-info
299K idna
11K idna-3.6.dist-info
4.0K PyYAML-6.0.1.dist-info
179K requests
6.5K requests-2.31.0.egg-info
392K urllib3
7.5K urllib3-2.0.7.dist-info
1.5K _yaml
441K yaml
2.4M total
The small size savings are the main reason I didn't prioritized this over other tasks.