Re: gnome-apt worry

[Havoc Pennington <hp@Mcs.Net>]

On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:
> > I tried out gnome at the weekend and thought "nice for beginners, extra
> > bloat for me". So I'm hoping that gnome-apt isn't going to rely on the
> > gnome-libs, or that there will be a gtk-only version for those of us who
> > don't mind editing config files in vi :) I can't see it being that tricky
> > to strip out the gnome stuff (then again I'm probably wrong knowing me).
> > 
> 

Sorry to follow up on myself, a couple other points - 

 - it sounds like your objection might be to the Gnome environment; 
   gnome-apt does not require you to run the panel, file manager, or any
   of that. Just the libs.

 - it would indeed be fairly hard to strip out the Gnome stuff in a nice 
   way, this is not a trivial thing

 - For the ultimate in lean and mean, the Xlib/terminal frontend still
   exists in half-finished form & AFAIK is still going to be finished 
   eventually. (of course, real men re-implement Xlib and send raw 
   protocol to the display socket. ;-)

Thanks,
Havoc