Thus spoke Marc Lehmann > Actually, the _whole_ gimp installation on an average linux x86 machine > (MINE) takes less than 13MB. It's 58Mb on my box, installed from the 1.1.14 source built with Gimp Perl disabled. > (Note that this is no reason not to provide a minimal install, and > something like that is already planned, but 55MB is, I think, a bit > oversized). Not really. Seems about right. > > Of course the hard part is deciding what should go in it. I could see > > It would be cool to have some configurator for this. I read through this thread and wondered whether adding installation support should really be part of the Gimp source itself. After thinking it over for a time, I believe distribution issues are separate from core development and should be addressed using external resources. For example, it would not be exceptionally hard to build a binary distribution placed on a CD which used a modified version of Loki's setup utility to perform some varations of installation. This might also be possible (though a bit more convoluted) to provide source distributions which only build the parts of interest. But the responsibility of letting the user determine what should be installed falls in the setup tool, not in the Gimp. Gimp should build everything and let an installation tool provide installation options. Anyway, just something I was thinking about since I recently reviewed Loki's setup. -- Michael J. Hammel | The Graphics Muse | A hard-on doesn't count as personal growth. mjhammel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.graphics-muse.com
