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Re: DeviceKit and /usr



Am Samstag 05 September 2009 23:29:39 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> The rationale for this /using glib/ is that devicekit-disks is not an
> integral part of udev, it's an add-on component that will be installed only
> on desktop systems.  So the size impact to /lib for servers for this
> component would be negligible; the total size impact of pulling in libglib
> on the desktop is zero; and the size impact to /lib for desktops is almost
> certainly also negligible.

And what about embedded systems? They start to use those libraries for even 
the simplest utilities that are also usuable on very small systems. And that's 
what worries me. If libglib is accepted are core utility in /lib, there will 
be no end to this :-(

> (I'll do you one better, though -- system-config-printer upstream wants to
> install /lib/udev/udev-configure-printer, which pulls in the entire libcups
> stack.  Sigh...)

*sigh* I agree. Has the world gone mad?

HS


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