[Foresight-devel] Re: Minimal group for compiling from source

[Ken VanDine]

I think what we need there is something like a group-gnome-devel-tools
or something like that, focused on the toolset not the headers, etc...
The point of group-gnome-dist-devel was to ease getting all the headers.

--Ken

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 21:36 +0200, Martin Bähr wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:04:42AM -0400, Eric Lake wrote:
> > I guess the real question that has to be answered if we were to do
> > something like this is "What would go in the group?". I think that the
> > build-essential package that ubuntu uses would be a good place to
> > start.
> 
> i just tried to install group-gnome-dist-devel and ran out of diskspace.
> this is obviously an unbearable situation, so it must be fixed.
> 
> unless someone beats be to it i'll try to make a new group tomorrow
> night. i'll probably start with group-gnome-dist-devel and remove all
> the :devel and :devellib troves, trying to create a group that only
> contains applications needed for development.
> 
> we can then discuss reducing the group even further if someone sees the
> need.
> 
> greetings, martin.