[oe] libx11-diet removal

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Sep 12 14:23:18 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 15:10 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 12 September 2012 14:59, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > I don't think there are many such users so I've merged the series. We've
> > had this mess around for a long time, keep talking about fixing and now
> > someone gives me a patch series so I really just can't resist ;-)
> 
> Thanks, Richard.
> 
> The final question is do we keep libx11-diet?  It is substantially
> smaller but the stubbing does knock out some non-deprecated
> functionality - as far as I'm aware both GTK+ and Qt fail to
> initialise with libx11-diet.
> 
> Two options:
> 1) delete it from oe-core
> 2) whoever actually uses it can have it, moving it from oe-core
> 
> I'll do (1) soonish unless someone speaks up in it's defence...

Is there any way to add in enough functionality that gtk/qt would work
but still save some space?

Cheers,

Richard





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