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Disk space (was: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure)

Posted Jun 24, 2010 9:06 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Disk space (was: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure) by cesarb
Parent article: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

This, very incidentally, is one of the reasons I object to Gnome forcing a dependency on Nautilus into gnome-session. In practice, Gnome works fine without Nautilus, once you jimmy the gnome-session package install and poke exactly one gconf entry. That saves 60M on disk, and a gratifying amount of RAM/swap. It's only arrogance and contempt that makes upstream keep the dependency.

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Disconnecting nautilus from gnome session

Posted Jun 24, 2010 20:56 UTC (Thu) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]

I know this is off-topic... but would you mind giving a little more detail on how to remove the nauilus dependency?

Disconnecting nautilus from gnome session

Posted Jun 26, 2010 9:56 UTC (Sat) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

In gconf-editor, go to desktop/gnome/session/, and change required_components_list to "[windowmanager,panel]".

While we're way, way off topic, you might also want to go to desktop/gnome/interface and change gtk_key_theme to "Emacs" so that the text edit box keybindings (except in Epiphany, grr) are Emacs-style.

Contempt, thy name is Gnome.

Getting back on topic, fat binaries makes perfect sense for shared libraries, so they can all go in /lib and /usr/lib. However, there's no reason to think anybody would force them on you for an EEE install.