Ken Moffat wrote:
Just for the record, these 700+ lines are the packages I have built
without libXfont, after libXfont2, and in this order. If you care,
you can probably work out where I bypass 'recommended' deps (evince
without nautilus comes to mind, but I rebuilt it later when testing
the rest of gnome).
Summary - bdftopcf and the old 'dpi' xorg bitmap fonts need
libXfont, also the old xorg-server used by tigervnc.
Apart from the separately-noted problems with glxgears and lxdm,
which seem to be nothing to do with omitting libXfont, I have not
fully tested the mail clients, the chat/messaging programs, and
transmission : for those I just checked that I could get text output,
e.g. for configuring accounts. For network-manager-applet (the
nm-applet prog) if I try to start it from a term it just tells me
that NetworkManager is not running. If I start that, libnotify
fails to connect to proxy. But that doesn't sound like missing
bitmap fonts.
The first part is my normal desktop build on this machine, not
everything here is in the books.
(xorg after libXfont2)
[snip]
Your list of packages is impressive. However I'm not sure what
recommendations you are making. It would appear to me that we shouldn't
try to remove libXfont if it is needed for tigervnc. Perhaps a note that
it is not needed if you are not going to build tigervnc would be
appropriate. However it is only about 1 MB (240K stripped). I suspect
the benefits from removing it are negligible.
To me the only drawback to the bitmapped fonts is the space they take up.
They total about 50 MB. On a system with Xorg, that shouldn't be a
significant amount. Perhaps a note about wat can be omitted or deleted
would be appropriate, but the user notes might also be a reasonable place
for the discussion.
If I understand it properly, the network-manager-applet is designed to be
launched from a window manager panel. The server is designed to be
started from a boot script. The only place nm/nm applet is really useful
is on a laptop where you may want to access a foreign network.
Are there specific changes to the book that should be made? Are there
inoperative programs that need to be addressed as separate tickets?
-- Bruce
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