Bug 43218

Summary:	Xconfigurator is a major disk hog
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Alan Cox <alan>
Component:	Xconfigurator	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	low
Version:	7.1	CC:	hp
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Description Alan Cox 2001-06-01 21:31:28 UTC

Xconfigurator depends on gtk and gdk_pixbuf. In turn gdk_pixbuf sucks in
half of Gnome. Very annoying on a 340Mb disk when you are trying to setup X
with a lightweight setup. Older Xconfigurators didnt suck in
gtk/gdk/gnome...

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-06-02 08:12:32 UTC

Yes, this should be done in Xt instead.  It will be rewritten to use Xt/Xlib
instead at some point.  It is added to my todo list now, but if someone else
is familiar with Xt/Xlib and feels like working on it, I'm glad to take
patches.  ;o)  Otherwise, I'll hack on it sometime myself.

Thanks for pointing out this suckageness, as I am trying to find all of the
nasties that suck in X on minimal installs.  I've eliminated some nasties,
but this one is certainly one that needs fixing.  If you know of other apps,
etc that suck in X on minimal installs, please let me know.  ssh used to do
that, but I think I've fixed that.  I'm sure there are other probs lurking
as well.

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2001-06-07 19:04:43 UTC

The gtk library responsible for sucking in GNOME has been split out
into a separate package by hp.  This probably should still be rewritten
though.

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2001-11-05 13:47:31 UTC

This dependancy hog thing has been resolved has it not?

Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2001-11-05 13:48:19 UTC

That last question was for Havoc by the way... forgot to mention that
as I Cc'd him.

Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2001-11-05 14:50:57 UTC

There is no dependency issue, only gdk-pixbuf-gnome should suck in gnome,
gdk-pixbuf depends only on GLib and libpng etc.

Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2001-11-06 03:25:37 UTC

Ok, problem solved then, thanks HP.