On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:07:32PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: > > Galeon depends on too many programs, including Nautilus and > > Gnome-Session. After purging a few of the unneeded dependencies off of > > my system I cleared out 80MB of programs. I consider 80MB to be a lot, > > especially for someone on dial-up or DSL. > > apt-cache show galeon | grep nautilus > apt-cache show galeon | grep gnome-session > return nothing, this means Galeon does not depend on these. I think > you meant other dependencies. > > Galeon is a *GNOME* browser, meaning it tries to integrate with > standard GNOME services such as session management, virtual filesystem > stack, GNOME user interface, startup notification, accessibility stack > etc. > > Could you be more specific in which dependencies you find superfluous? > > If you're looking for a browser which does not depend on the GNOME > stack, I suggest you try kazehakase or iceweasel, or text mode browsers > such as w3m or links. > > Bye, >
I know Galeon doesn't say that it directly depends on them, but try installing it on a system where GNOME isn't installed. I know it's a GNOME browser but so is Epiphany (Officially, too), and Epiphany has 1/20th the amount of dependencies to download.
