On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:38:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 18 April 2005 23:26, Joey Hess wrote: > > Frans Pop wrote: > > > While checking the sizes I noticed the following: > > > - The Print server task is completely broken as it will pull in X and > > > Gnome: the task has foomatic-gui which depends python-gnome2 which > > > ... > > How do you get from there to "completly broken"? > > > - Same goes for SQL server task which will pull in X because of > > > pgaccess which depends on tk8.3 which depends on xlibs... > > > IMHO this is completely broken for server tasks. > > <shrug>, I have many servers with bits of X installed, if they don't > > have to run an X server, this seems acceptible, it's just another > > library set. > Right. A "few libraries" would probably be acceptable to me as well > (although I'd prefer to not get any X when installing a server task). > The actual print server related packages total just under 80MB. Dragging > in 90MB (installed size) worth of X and Gnome when selecting a printer > task from tasksel for an old 486 or Pentium that was supposed to be a > lightweight server, is broken in my book. Is the print server task documented as being a "lightweight server"? I thought it pulled in CUPS. CUPS is a bloated cow; the size of the queue databases it created on my /var when there were *no* print jobs in the queue is obscene -- IIRC, they take up as much space as the X/GNOME stuff you mention, and it was very irritating to find that my /var partition wasn't big enough to accomodate this. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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