Re: Small rant: installer environment size

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On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 6:45 PM Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 08:53 +0100, Tomáš Popela wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 5:30 AM Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 03:28 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:42 AM Adam Williamson
> > > <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi folks! Today I woke up and found
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151495 , which diverted
> > me
> > > > down a bit of an "installer environment size" rabbit hole.
> > >
> > > Does the "new and improved" web based installer help this
> > > in any way?
> >
> > I haven't looked yet but I suspect it'll probably be a wash, mostly. If
> > anything it's likely slightly negative because the new installer itself
> > hard requires webkitgtk, so we can't really do anything to finesse that
> > requirement any more. With the old installer, we could maybe try and
> > figure out some way of being able to show the help pages without
> > needing yelp/webkitgtk. Since the new installer itself needs webkitgtk,
> > seems like there's no way we're getting rid of that ~40M compressed.
> >
>
> You should also try to do this - remove webkitgtk and yelp packages and add
> firefox, because that's what the web based installer should/will use in the
> end - see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2142779. We already
> had a meeting with Anaconda dev and told him to use Firefox instead of
> WebKitGTK for the web installer - due to resources that are internally (and
> frankly in upstream as well) allocated to WebKitGTK.

I can try that. What will Firefox run on top of? Is that decided? A
bare X server? Weston? Something else? Thanks!

I think that it will run on top of gnome-kiosk (what anaconda uses now - implemented in https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/3307), but I will add @Radek Vykydal here to confirm.

Tom
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