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Bug#324104: marked as done (please split off non-essenstial stuff from xlibs-data to a separate package)

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and subject line Bug#324104: please split off non-essenstial stuff from xlibs-data to a separate package
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Package: xlibs-data
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5
Severity: wishlist

xlibs-data contains some things which are essenstial for running most X
programs, while other things in it tka up a lot of space, and are rarely
used. The package takes up almost 7.5 MB of disk space, out of which
4 MB are cursors in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/ (only two or three default
cursors should be in the main package, the rest in xlibs-data-extra for
example), and half a meg of stuff in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/ and
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/ which I don't think I ever use, while I
use X (I use the ion3 window manager). 

libx11-6 package (which I need because GTK+ depends on it) desription
states: "libx11-6 depends on xlibs-data for locale data and the X error
and keysym databases", and these are almost the only things I need from
xlibs-data (+ two or three default cursors). So please leave only that
in xlibs-data, which will make it's installed size about 40% of it's
current installed size, and move the rest to a new package, for example
xlibs-data-extra. 

Please don't tell me that 4 MB is "nothing" in the era of 200 GB hard
drives - people want tu use flash disks as the only filesystem also in
desktop computers, not just embedded (just because of their silentness,
nothing else), and/or put a copy of the whole filesystem in RAM for
speed, and then such a waste of diskpace matters. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Closing since this package does not exist anymore, and the 4MB of
cursors (first complain of the submitter) have been moved to their own
package (xcursor-themes).

Brice

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