>>
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...
>> 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).
>
Can't we use Gconf-dbus instead of the normal GConf ?
It wouldn't make any difference as evolution-data-server uses it so it
would still be pulled in because its part of the gnome desktop. Even
then the difference is not more than a couple of meg. In 6 months or
so most of those deps should be gone.
Peter