On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 1:56 PM Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > I did a check on some.. I only downloaded 3 isos so this isn't a complete > > set. > > I think trying to track down 11 to 16 years of creeping bloat now is pretty > much a lost cause, but one thing I notice: > > > The 20 largest packages on 33 is: > [snip] > > 47955205 qt5-qtwebkit > > 60158710 webkit2gtk3 > [snip] > > 165482197 qt5-qtwebengine > [snip] > > 271515808 firefox > > Having 4 different web engines on the Spin definitely does not help. > qt5-qtwebengine is the one that logically should be there, the others are > bloat. > > Of these, Firefox is the largest and even overall the second largest package > on the Spin (and that does not even include the size of the separate > firefox-langpacks package that should be added to the Firefox size). It is > entirely unnecessary on the KDE Spin because we already have Falkon: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1920298 > > webkit2gtk3 was probably dragged in by the Anaconda → Yelp → WebKitGTK > dependency chain. I blame Anaconda for that dependency bloat. > > (Of course, the Anaconda web UI will make the situation even worse there, in > that one of the above will become required by Anaconda to even just display > its UI. I think switching to Calamares should be seriously considered at > least for the KDE Spin.) > > As for qt5-qtwebkit, I am not sure what dragged this in on F33. We have been > trying to get rid of QtWebKit uses. I do not know yet what dragged this in > on F33 and whether that has been fixed since. >
FYI, if the GTK-based Anaconda UI goes away, the KDE variants probably ship a thin QtWebEngine wrapper or use Firefox instead for the web-based UI. No reason to depend on WebKitGTK for this. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
