saving space on the Xfce Spin

[Martin Sourada]

Hi,

On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:30:33 +0200 
Christoph Wickert wrote:
>       * gnome-desktop3 is big and has a lot of deps (themes!), while
> we only need the libgnome-desktop-3 for cheese. That's why I filed
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693545 but I don't
>         think it will be fixed, at least not in time for F18.
actually the images for themes are shared between desktops, wherever
it makes sense, so the two theme packages you mention sum up to about
only 1kB...

> Suggestions:
>      1. Drop xfce4-icon-theme, it's broken anyway. I suggest to mark
> it as "optional" in comps so it no longer gets installed by default
>         (and on the spin).
+1

>      2. Drop claws-mail-plugins-bogofilter, people will hardly notice
>         it.
+1

>      3. Drop cheese, at least if we cannot get gnome-desktop3 split
> up. xfce4-icon-theme and claws-mail-plugins-bogofilter will not help
>         us much, but cheese alone could do the trick.
+1

>      4. Get rid of one browser, either firefox or midori. midori only
>         makes sense if we also remove lifearea.
Isn't webkitgtk used by claws as well? Anyway, I'd personally favour
midori over firefox, i.e. keep midori. It has more XFCE-y feel.

> Additional packages:
> There are two more packages I'd like to see in the spin.
>      1. For some reason, net-tools doesn't get installed, so there is
> no ifconfig. It's only 294k.
+1

Regards,
Martin
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