Bug#824502: gdk-pixbuf: Please split the X11 dependent plugins into a separate package

[Michael Biebl]

Am 16.05.2016 um 21:05 schrieb Matthias Klumpp:
> Source: gdk-pixbuf
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi!
> Since gdk-pixbuf is increasingly used on servers and is very useful in general
> without any GUI, having it pull in a big amount of X11 isn't nice.
> Fedora splits out the xlib dependent stuff into a separate package, greatly
> reducing the dependencies of the core gdk-pixbuf.

You mean splitting out
/usr/lib/$(MULTIARCH)/libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0.3400.0?
So all we would save would be a dependency on libx11-6 which is about
3Mb (including all dependencies of libx11-6)

# apt-get install libx11-6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 961 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3496 kB of additional disk space will be used.

vs

# apt-get install libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libffi6 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libglib2.0-0 libicu55 libjbig0
  libjpeg62-turbo libpng16-16 libtiff5 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1
  libxdmcp6 libxml2 shared-mime-info
Recommended packages:
  libglib2.0-data xdg-user-dirs xml-core
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libffi6 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libglib2.0-0 libicu55
  libjbig0 libjpeg62-turbo libpng16-16 libtiff5 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6
  libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxml2 shared-mime-info
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 50.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.


ICU is what makes are real difference.
The 3M from libx11-6 are really negligible in that case.

Regards,
Michael
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