On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 00:59 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
Bummer. The reason for libxkbcommon dependency is to be able to make
sure that the new config is valid. Before that was added we had a set
of rules and heuristics implemented in localed and regular bug reports
when typos and other mistakes were not caught by localed but Xorg
would not accept the new config. This is more important than might
seem, 'cause people tend to get grumpy when a misconfigured keyboard
mapping prevents them from typing in their password. So this dependency
does bring useful functionality.
We can certainly make xkeyboard-config smaller. About half its on-disk
footprint is localized strings, %langpack would help. The geometry
subdir is completely useless, and I'm reasonably sure the xml it
installs is really just source data and not anything apps or libs use.
All told that'd get xkeyboard-config down to a hair over 2M on disk.
- ajax