On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 22:24, John Thacker wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:37:23PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > Excellent, thanks. I was just looking at this yesterday and then got > > distracted before really digging into libdv. New libdv with the patch > > built and building gstreamer-plugins now. > > Great. That brings down further the number of gtk+ depending packages. > I'm aware of: > > mtr-gtk and nmap-frontend, both frontends to terminal network analyzing > packages, which honestly shouldn't be difficult to port > > system-config-proc, which is a RedHat package We should consider removing system-config-proc from the distro. Is it useful to anybody? --Brent > > xmms, which has been really slow to even start porting to gtk2, but > an outside group forked it to a gtk2 version: > http://beepmp.sourceforge.net > > gnucash, and the host of GNOME1.4 packages that are now only required > for gnucash. (gtkhtml1, Guppi, gnome-libs, and a bunch of others > with interlocking dependencies) They've been working on a GTK2 and > GNOME2 port for a while, although they would appreciate any help. > > and various assorted things like gdk-pixbuf and gtk-engines that are > essentially part of gtk+ itself. > > Many people on the list have talked about removing inessential packages > and so forth, especially from the default install. Hopefully soon > GNOME1.4 and maybe also gtk+ can be removed from the defaults. > I'd like to nominate it as a goal for FC3, but it really depends on > gnucash; everything else is probably fairly easy. > > John Thacker >
