Jeff Johnson wrote: > > ... nautilus "needs" samba much likes it needs just about every other > bleeping library in FC4. Why? Because users want "features", and > features requires implementations, usually in libraries, which use > sonames, which are copied into package dependencies. If you think that the fact that Nautilus has a lot of "features" means that it's necessary for it to cause the entire desktop as a single unsplittable ball of mud, well, you have been misinformed. > So change how ghostscript is packaged, splitting out each individual > printer driver into a separate package, leaving a pristine ghostscript > that floats your boat. Hey, guess what! I don't maintain Ghostscript or work for Red Hat! Other people on this list have the ability to fix this crap, not me. > If space is tight, then you're cheap ;-) Ok smartass, now why don't you explain to me how I'm "cheap" because I don't have the time or inclination to back up, repartition, and restore my machines' drives every time I upgrade the OSes because someone with your "disk space doesn't matter" attitude decided that it was ok for a default install to go from a /usr that takes ~400MB to >2GB in just two years. > Seriously, diska *are* cheap. Seriously, you *are* missing the point. > And there is already a mechanism to install only requested locales, > feel free to configure to limit locales to *only* en_US if your boat > is sinking because of locale baggage. What binary rpm installation does that? Oh, I'm sorry, you must have been under the impression that I was compiling all my packages from source, since everyone does that. > Try --excludedocs, been in rpm for years. I must have overlooked the Anaconda checkbox that turns that on. And the "yum update" option, too. > look around a bit on your file system with "du -s". GOLLY I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT. -- Jamie Zawinski jwz@xxxxxxx http://www.jwz.org/ jwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejournal.com/
