Bug#552367: libgtk2.0-0: move libdk_pixbuf libraries into a separate package

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 25 octobre 2009 à 19:48 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : 
> at the moment, icewm uses the libgdk_pixbuf libraries as its image
> loader, and AFAICS nothing else from the libgtk2.0-0 package. To reduce
> the size of the dependency chain, it would be nice to have files
> matching *gdk_pixbuf*.so* in a separate package (which then libgtk2.0-0
> would depend on, of course).
> 
> Quick calculations sais: that would require 432KiB instead of 6168KiB,
> thus reducing the download size (for installing icewm) by a couple MiB.

I’ve already considered splitting some of the libraries in libgtk2.0-*
in separate packages, but this is interesting only if there is a real
gain in doing this. I don’t think icewm alone is enough of a
justification to split this library.

If you’re really interested in it, could you conduct an archive-wide
study listing packages that would benefit from the splitting?

Cheers, 
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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