Minimal gnome support?

dhave · 11-05-2004, 07:57 AM

The only gnome app that I need is Evolution. Using slackdeptrack (pretty nice, by the way), I came up with a list of dependencies for Evolution and Evolution Data Server.

I'm wondering if I can safely uninstall all other gnomish stuff except for the packages listed in those two dependency lists.

I'd like to, because I worry that too much gnome stuff could bog down my otherwise snappy system.

Thanks.

Matir · 11-05-2004, 08:16 AM

AFAIK, All those extra packages would do would take up hard drive space. So that would be my deciding factor. With my fatty 120GB, I don't worry too much about 60 megs or so of packages. ISOs, on the other hand....

dhave · 11-05-2004, 08:49 AM

So all those extra gnome parts aren't lurking in memory somewhere? As long as they stay dormant on my hard drive, I won't worry about them, but if they're somehow getting loaded by default, I want to zap them. I guess I could check my running processes and see if there're any gnomish things going on.

dhave · 11-05-2004, 09:02 AM

It appears that gnome is behaving itself pretty well, after all. I didn't find any gnome-related processes running until I actually launched a gnome applet. At that point, gconfd-2 loaded, using about 4Mb of RAM, along with the applet itself. After I closed the applet, gconfd-2 remained in memory.

That's about 1 percent of my total RAM, so I can live with that. I wish gconfd-2 would unload itself, but it's apparently not being too intrusive.