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Re: Lightweight Web browsers



On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:58:44PM +0000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > Now I agree that there's lots of bloat in Gnome, but I have to disagree
> > with you about Glib. [...]
> 
> Well, I've heard these arguments a lot and I agree with them to some extent. I 
> [...]
> I think in principle glib may be a good idea, but it is overdone.

IMO a major difference between glib and gnome libs is:

% apt-cache show libglib1.2 | grep Size
Installed-Size: 264
Size: 106184

With a bit of trickery, one could probably fit gftp-text on a diskette :)

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