Hello! Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> skribis:
> This didn’t work as well as I had hoped. I was able to make a “lib” > output for “colord”, which gets rid of “hplip-minimal” and, in turn, > “gcc”. However, it was supposed to also remove “llvm” and “python@3”, > but those are still in the closure because of other packages. It looks > like breaking apart “mesa” (as Debian and Nix do) could cut out “llvm” > and maybe “python@2”. The reason “python@3” is there is because of > “glib:bin”. The “gnome-session” package brings it in so that it can > call “gsettings”. Debian splits the GLib executables into “bin” and > “dev-bin”, and only the latter needs Python 3. This is tricky because > “mesa” and “glib” have thousands of dependants, so changing them could > cause a lot of problems. Splitting GLib is not so bad, but Mesa looks > to be quite complicated. Yeah, splitting MESA and GLib are longer-term project I guess, but it’s good that you’ve already analyzed the situation so we know what to do next. > Another area that could be improved is NetworkManager. GDM only needs > the “libnm” part, but it ends up bringing in everything. NetworkManager > doesn’t have many dependants, so this could be done pretty quickly > (provided that splitting it is easy enough). Indeed. > I managed to remove “webgitgtk” from the closure of “gnome-shell”. Neat! Do you have that patch around? :-) > All told, GDM is down to 1.2GiB, and GNOME Shell is 1.64GiB. That’s > better, but not great. Plenty of GNOME software comes in big bundles > where you get a daemon, a low-level D-Bus library, a high-level library, > a GUI, and some utilities. Being able to break these up would improve > the situation quite a bit, but it will be a lot of work. I don’t know > how much of this we can solve before 1.0. It all depends on how much of > a hurry we’re in. :) That will be post-1.0, let’s focus on the low-hanging fruits for now. :-) > Right now, I have a bit testing to do with my current patches, and then > maybe I could break up NetworkManager and fix the dependency cycle with > GDM and GNOME Shell. If it can go through a core-updates cycle, I could > split up GLib. I don’t think I can split up Mesa, though. I am not > very familiar with it. > > I will be tied up for about a week, so I won’t be able to do any of it > before next weekend (Mar. 29). OK, thank you for your work! Ludo’.
