On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> This might be a gnome problem, but....
Well, it is a Gnome problem to the extent that Gnome
components, such as the pygtk2 (2 M) pulls in gtk2 widgets (12
M of widget) for a 1/2 M config tool. We discused this in IRC
a couple weeks ago, and I talked a customer through it just
this morning, as to this bloat into s-c-tools, and the lack of
there being an effective enumeration tool for RPM to use to
enumerate Pythonic 'includes' to find such Requires.
If I cared, I'd file a bug upstream, but as all right thinking
people install Gnome, I doubt it would get much attention ;0
In some install paths (such as moving a server to add X) such
that you can install s-c-display, and not know that a needed
element was missing.
The underlying Pythonic code displaced the former (lighter)
code which did this in prior s-c-display's without the Gnomish
parts -- Don't you feel better with nicer widgets? And there
are lovely UI standards. Is the check box on the side you
like?
That said, at least there is some tool for people willing to
bloat their box and use Gnome. Oh -- and
man xorg.conf
is there for the rugged individualist
The other trap for the unwary with a new install is that the
xfs needs to be running, and have fonts, etc.
> I ran system-config-display form the command line, but it dies thus:
>
> [root at mhullrichter mhr]# system-config-display
> * no cardMem, assuming 8192
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 380, in ?
*** first hint -- Python code -- silent included modules are
not findable to RPM at build time. As all right thinking
prople install Gnome, they are not needed here of course.
> TypeError: GtkLabel.set_text() argument 1 must be string, not None
lets check the man page:
man GtkLabel
hmmm -- no man page -- oh, that's right -0- it's Gnome -- it
does not NEED no steenkin' man pages. As I enable the
updatedb, I find:
[herrold at centos-4 ~]$ locate GtkLabel
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gtk/GtkLabel.html
and that is enough to remind me of this trap
good luck
- Russ Herrold