Re: gnome-apt worry
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:41:33AM -0600, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> 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. ;-)
Hate to say this but, me too! I'm tired of people complaining how gnome is
all bloat. If you think that then gtk is bloat, and so is xlib, hell
xservers are bloat too, all you need is the console. The fact is no one is
making you use it, there is always dselect with apt as a backend.
Long live gnome-apt
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