Daniel, It is quiet possible we'll want to pick up gnomevfs2 as a basic library in a future release (think about the OLPCfs method of accessing the journal). We didn't want the old gnomevfs library since that pulled in the old bonobo horror as a dependency. I'm not familiar with libgnome, and therefore have no opinion there. - Jim
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 13:00 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:43 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: > > 3. These dependencies will be coming back someday in the upstream, when > > Mozilla makes these hard dependencies instead of soft dependencies. > > Are you saying that, in future, it will not be possible to compile a > xulrunner without printing support? What about the libgnome/gnomevfs > dependencies? > > > If this analysis is correct, it forces us to answer some key questions. > > > > 1. Space. What are the real space requirements for the xulrunner > > dependencies? Do we have any hard numbers that we can analyze? Is it > > reasonable to carry all of the dependencies along in OLPC? How were the > > decisions made to leave out certain pieces of the xulrunner dependency > > chain, and can those decisions be revisited? > > So far, I don't think we've been considering space footprints for > specific packages. Instead, we have been considering our OS build as a > whole: we want to limit it to 300mb, and our F9 builds are currently > 45mb overweight. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7353 > > I recently modified OLPC-3 xulrunner to remove dependencies on libgnome > and gnomevfs2. Once Dennis has had a chance to review my work to remove > libgnome deps from other packages too, a huge dependency chain > (including metacity, icon themes, and plenty more) will fall out of the > build. Therefore it is quite important that OLPC's xulrunner continues > to avoid it's dependency on libgnome. > > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel