Split machine-guest-tools in multiple packages #100
Description
Context
Currently machine-guest-tools is a single package containing many utilities, many of those utilities are not actually used by dapp when deployed, but is installed anyway consuming space in the dapp rootfs, which incur additional costs to node runners.
Possible solutions
One solution is to split into multiple packages for ex:
- machine-guest-libcmt
- machine-guest-libcmt-dev
- machine-guest-rollup
- machine-guest-yield
- machine-guest-cartesi-init
- machine-guest-hex
- machine-guest-misc
- machine-guest-ioctl-echo-loop
- machine-guest-tools (meta package containing all the previous one)
Splitting the guest tools package into several packages without a package manager would make it harder to use, and overflow our CI with many artifacts and create dependency problem that only package managers can solve, so we should try to visit this issue when we get an official package distribution for guest packages.
Workaround
Dapp developers can workaround this by installing machine-guest-tools deb artifact and removing manually unused binaries.