Fedora 23 cloud image (and, for that matter, minimal anything) bloat

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 11:00 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Not saying that it is very useful, but I believe gkbd-keyboard-display
does use geometry information.