Kudos to whomever worked on the synaptics touchpad driver !

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 00:42 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> > yum doesn't depend on synaptics. (so removing up2date should be ok)
> > And I don't see the cups depending on synaptics...
> > 
> 
> Satish, I can't seriously believe you find it OK for all that stuff you
> listed to depend on synaptics. Besides, on my RC5 system that's not all.
> Attempting to remove xorg-x11-libs and xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL says they are
> required by synaptics, which in turn is required by rhpl, and there goes
> most of the Fedora-specific stuff like up2date.
> 
> Attempting to remove cups takes a similar path, since freetype and
> fontconfig depend on xorg* and there you go. So yes, unless I remove
> rhpl and up2date, I cannot remove synaptics.
> 
> I just do not find it reasonable that the dependencies of a touchpad can
> be that far-reaching.

Well - you want to remove all x/gui packages anyway - and most (if not
all) synaptic dependent packages (including up2date) are gui packages
anyway - hence should be reomved (according to your minimal spec)

And I didn't think loosing up2date was a big deal - as yum would
suffice in your minimal install. At one point - I thought you wanted
to remove python as well - in which case you can fall-back on 'apt' to
provide updates.

There is always a tradeoff on pushing synaptics into 'rhpl' - now
multiple tools that might depend-on/configure synaptics can now use
some common code from 'rhpl'.

Perhaps you could argue that rhpl should be split up into
rhpl/rhpl-gui (not sure if this is feasiable or justified)

Could you list which packgaes you'd like to see gone (and are unable
to remove) - which would add up to the 40M of savings? Synaptics by
itself is 40k - so thats not it.<I'd like to see your listing from
'yum remove'>

Satish