On 11/30/22 22:24, Johannes P Fassotte wrote:
It was not to may years ago that LinuxCnc was just over 120Mb in extracted size. Now V 2.9 master is takes up 252Mb so its getting bloaded with a lot of none essential things. I think it needs a good cleaning to get it back on track. I feel that there are to many personnal projects being added that are better suited to be developer supported addtions and not part of LinuxCnc itself.
I think the best way to address this concern would be to provide finer-grained packaging, so that users can choose what GUIs to install.
There is a strong incentive to keep the GUIs in our repo, so that GUI developers don't have to reproduce our test & packaging infrastructure.
We could move (for example) the Qt stuff into a new `linuxcnc-gui-qt` package, which would be installed by default but easy for an end user to remove.
I have no intention of working on this myself, but I would be happy to review a PR that has successfully made it past our automated package & test systems.
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