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Subject: Re: When will the madness end?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:06:22 -0400
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On 3/24/2024 9:36 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:20:14 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> 419MB of disk space and 214 newly installed packages for a hobbyist,
>>> simple-simon text editor?
> 
> The "madness" lies in starting with a base install, installing a GNOME editor,
> being suprised that it installs a bunch of stuff for the GNOME desktop, and
> then counting it up and posting it to COLA.


Minimum 419MB of disk space and 259 packages (dependencies and 
suggested) for that piece of crap?

And what are all those sound-related libraries doing in there?

Notepad++ is doomed.



for i,pkg in enumerate(sorted(set(packages.split()))): print(i+1,pkg)

-------------------------------
1 accountsservice
2 adwaita-icon-theme
3 alsa-topology-conf
4 alsa-ucm-conf
5 alsa-utils
6 aspell
7 aspell-doc
8 aspell-en
9 at-spi2-core
10 bubblewrap
11 colord
12 cups-common
13 dbus-user-session
14 dconf-gsettings-backend
15 dconf-service
16 debhelper
17 dictionaries-common
18 docbook
19 docbook-defguide
20 docbook-dsssl
21 docbook-xml
22 docbook-xsl
23 emacsen-common
24 enchant-2
25 evince
26 fontconfig
27 gedit
28 gedit-common
29 gedit-plugins
30 gir1.2-atk-1.0
31 gir1.2-freedesktop
32 gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0
33 gir1.2-gtk-3.0
34 gir1.2-gtksource-4
35 gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0
36 gir1.2-pango-1.0
37 gir1.2-peas-1.0
38 glib-networking
39 glib-networking-common
40 glib-networking-services
41 gnome-shell
42 gsettings-desktop-schemas
43 gstreamer1.0-alsa
44 gstreamer1.0-gl
45 gstreamer1.0-libav
46 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
47 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
48 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
49 gstreamer1.0-x
50 gtk-update-icon-cache
51 gvfs
52 hicolor-icon-theme
53 humanity-icon-theme
54 hunspell
55 hunspell-en-us
56 jackd2
57 libaa1
58 libasound2
59 libasound2-data
60 libasound2-plugins
61 libaspell1
62 libaspell15
63 libasyncns0
64 libatk-bridge2.0-0
65 libatk1.0-0
66 libatk1.0-data
67 libatspi2.0-0
68 libavahi-client3
69 libavahi-common-data
70 libavahi-common3
71 libavc1394-0
72 libcaca0
73 libcairo-gobject2
74 libcairo2
75 libcanberra-gtk0
76 libcanberra-pulse
77 libcanberra0
78 libcdparanoia0
79 libcolord2
80 libcups2
81 libdatrie1
82 libdconf1
83 libdrm-amdgpu1
84 libdrm-intel1
85 libdrm-nouveau2
86 libdrm-radeon1
87 libdv-bin
88 libdv4
89 libegl-mesa0
90 libegl1
91 libenchant-2-2
92 libenchant-2-voikko
93 libepoxy0
94 libevdev2
95 libflac8
96 libgbm1
97 libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
98 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin
99 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common
100 libgl1
101 libgl1-amber-dri
102 libgl1-mesa-dri
103 libglapi-mesa
104 libgles2
105 libglvnd0
106 libglx-mesa0
107 libglx0
108 libgraphene-1.0-0
109 libgraphite2-3
110 libgspell-1-2
111 libgspell-1-common
112 libgstreamer-gl1.0-0
113 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
114 libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0
115 libgtk-3-0
116 libgtk-3-bin
117 libgtk-3-common
118 libgtksourceview-4-0
119 libgtksourceview-4-common
120 libgudev-1.0-0
121 libhandy-1-0
122 libharfbuzz-icu0
123 libharfbuzz0b
124 libhunspell-1.7-0
125 libhyphen0
126 libiec61883-0
127 libjack-jackd2-0
128 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
129 libjson-glib-1.0-0
130 libjson-glib-1.0-common
131 liblcms2-2
132 liblcms2-utils
133 libllvm15
134 libltdl7
135 libmanette-0.2-0
136 libmp3lame0
137 libmpg123-0
138 libnotify4
139 libogg0
140 libopenjp2-7
141 libopus0
142 liborc-0.4-0
143 libpango-1.0-0
144 libpangocairo-1.0-0
145 libpangoft2-1.0-0
146 libpangoxft-1.0-0
147 libpciaccess0
148 libpeas-1.0-0
149 libpeas-common
150 libpipewire-0.3-0
151 libpipewire-0.3-common
152 libpipewire-0.3-modules
153 libpixman-1-0
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