On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:57 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 22:51 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
If empathy didn't have a hard requires on some of it's plugins, like telepathy-haze (which pulls in libpurple) that would drop 20MB or more. IMO, the only hard-requires for empathy should probably be telepathy-gabble (XMMP) & telepathy-salut (local-link XMMP), the rest we should give a hard look at what we want to use a default in comps to reduce some of the bloat.
I do agree that this adds a hefty chunk of size to the image; but if we do not keep the Haze and other telepathy stack components in it, then it becomes a severe regression from previous releases' Live images, which I'd also dislike to have happen. :-/
That's why I said we should look at what to include in the comps, and not put hard requires in the spec. ;)
And there *are* going to be regressions in features even with tp-haze. Empathy won't be able to do things like file-transfers, etc, that Pidgin currently supports.
Later, /B