Jeff Johnson wrote:
... nautilus "needs" samba much likes it needs just about every other
bleeping library in FC4. Why? Because users want "features", and
features requires implementations, usually in libraries, which use
sonames, which are copied into package dependencies.
If you think that the fact that Nautilus has a lot of "features" means
that it's necessary for it to cause the entire desktop as a single
unsplittable ball of mud, well, you have been misinformed.
So change how ghostscript is packaged, splitting out each individual
printer driver into a separate package, leaving a pristine ghostscript
that floats your boat.
Hey, guess what! I don't maintain Ghostscript or work for Red Hat!
Other people on this list have the ability to fix this crap, not me.
If space is tight, then you're cheap ;-)
Ok smartass, now why don't you explain to me how I'm "cheap" because I
don't have the time or inclination to back up, repartition, and restore
my machines' drives every time I upgrade the OSes because someone with
your "disk space doesn't matter" attitude decided that it was ok for a
default install to go from a /usr that takes ~400MB to >2GB in just two
years.
Seriously, diska *are* cheap.
Seriously, you *are* missing the point.
And there is already a mechanism to install only requested locales,
feel free to configure to limit locales to *only* en_US if your boat
is sinking because of locale baggage.
What binary rpm installation does that? Oh, I'm sorry, you must have
been under the impression that I was compiling all my packages from
source, since everyone does that.
Try --excludedocs, been in rpm for years.
I must have overlooked the Anaconda checkbox that turns that on.
And the "yum update" option, too.
look around a bit on your file system with "du -s".
GOLLY I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT.
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