http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os20/os20.packages.txt is 630 packages, for comparison the 8.2.1 build log http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/8.2.1/build802/devel_ext3/bu... had 402 packages. Obviously the new builds have an entire Gnome desktop, but some areas seemed a bit bloat-ish.
I see perl. Back in 2008 bonobo was pulling in Perl, and I see bonobo. But there's no more gnome-python2-bonobo, so what requires bonobo? Maybe there are unfixed packaging issues from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distro_version_migration_nastiness
8.2.1 had no man/pod/info pages, but I see ghostscript, groff, rarian, etc.
There's matchbox and metacity, I thought Sugar was switching to Metacity?
etc. No worries, I'm just curious.
there are no perl deps on on the gnome stack any more. I filed around 20 odd bugs to fix that up. The only package that currently pulls in perl if you do a "yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment'" the only thing that pulls perl in is the CD burning stuff which obviously isn't required on the XO. I'll try and run one up in a VM over the weekend and send a patch to cleanup some of the deps. I run my eeePC 901 with a full gnome, sugar and moblin desktop and still no perl :-)
With regards to the bonobo requirement that will come from evolution and gconf as they still require it (for the moment).
Peter