[master][v2] Split the UI code out into separate packages

Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime at redhat.com
Wed Nov 20 07:34:44 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 13:57 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > These patches fix some issues we had in our spec file and split the UI code out
> > into separate packages. Results of my testing are as follows:
> > 
> > 1) Installing anconda-gui with all its dependencies on top of already installed
> > anaconda-tui with all its dependencies results in almost 180 MB of disk space
> > taken. That may come handy on minimal installations requiring Initial Setup and
> > we could create minimal composes with much smaller squashfs images (don't know
> > what compression does with that number, but it will probably be a noticeable
> > difference).
> > 
> > 2) Using updates.img with all python modules from pyanaconda/ui/gui replaced
> > with stubs raising errors results in automatic falling back to text mode and
> > successfull installation without any traceback.
> 
> These look fine to me, though the last patch with the fallback
> capability just adds more complication to an area I already hate.  One
> day, someone needs to get in there and clean up how we determine text
> vs. graphical.  There's simply too much code.
Yeah, I agree with that. Adding it to my TODO list.

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Vratislav Podzimek

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