[Mageia-dev] painful discussion n°1: debloating

Sun Apr 8 17:06:29 CEST 2012

Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2012/4/7 Sander Lepik <sander.lepik at eesti.ee>:
+>> 07.04.2012 19:18, Thomas Spuhler kirjutas:
+>>>
+>>> On Saturday, April 07, 2012 08:38:39 AM Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>>>>
+>>>> To summarize it:
+>>>> - has anyone any opposition to remove the totem-mozilla - KDE
+>>>> relationship in the installer ?
+>>>
+>>> I'd go for this.
+>>
+>> I'm not so sure about that. Are there any other alternatives for that?
+>> Firefox may be gtk app but most people still use it under KDE too. If you
+>> remove those plugins then i would say usability will be hit.
+> 
+> totem-mozilla does not seem to be a dependency for Firefox. I'm using
+> Firefox but totem-mozilla is one of those packages I unmark everytime
+> in individual package selection without any regression for Firefox.
+
+I was under the impression talking to ennael on IRC a few weeks ago that this was already going to happen.
+
+totem is not needed and is the first thing I uninstall on new installations as well.  If you need FF plugins, gecko-mediaplayer should have 
+you covered.  If you need a video player, kmplayer, dragon player, or VLC do the job (I'm not sure which was decided to use by default in KDE 
+Mageia, that's where the discussion with ennael left off).
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