Bart Smaalders wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: > >> >> What hit me is that in order to be viable these days, any >> desktop implementation needs Firefox, and that Firefox >> is based on GNOME (GTK+) libraries, Glib, Pango, ATK, >> et al. So what does this have to do with this document? >> Well, in addition to the set of packages needed to get >> X running[1], all the packages that Firefox needs (lots of >> them) are also required. So here's a copy of that set. In >> specific, this set is intended to comprise the additional >> packages that Firefox depends on, but not to include >> any superfluous packages: > > > I'll assert w/o proof that any desktop that needs firefox & > gnome isn't small...
Yes, but I meant not GNOME, but rather a subset of the same GUI libraries that GNOME happens to also use. E.g. if viewed in the context of the JDS consolidation, a small subset of it. Eric
