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Feature request: Xfce ISO is too bloated

In my very humble opinion, of course.

What I would have changed (if I were an Artix dev):

- Make it more tidy and clean
- Don't do that theming stuff via dotfiles (like kde stuff and other pre-configured possible apps like pacmanfm, lxqt stuff, lxappearance... just why?) in my homedir and also in /.config/gtk-3.0/ as well as in /usr/share/gtk-2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 etc. etc. I've grown some grey hair finding out what made all the programs look like... hmm... Especially with anti-aliasing disabled (custom fonts become garbage etc.). Leave it all to the user (please !!!).
- Don't include nvidia drivers because it completely borks the live media. Use case: a legacy video card + new drivers (not supporting this card = a big oops.

What I mean in the first point is: why do I need all these in an XFCE setup:

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error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing qt5-base breaks dependency 'qt5-base' required by karchive
:: removing polkit-qt5 breaks dependency 'polkit-qt5' required by kauth
:: removing qt5-base breaks dependency 'qt5-base' required by kcodecs
:: removing qt5-base breaks dependency 'qt5-base' required by kconfig
:: removing qt5-base breaks dependency 'qt5-base' required by kcoreaddons
:: removing qt5-x11extras breaks dependency 'qt5-x11extras' required by kdbusaddons
:: removing qt5-x11extras breaks dependency 'qt5-x11extras' required by kguiaddons
:: removing qt5-wayland breaks dependency 'qt5-wayland' required by kguiaddons
:: removing qt5-declarative breaks dependency 'qt5-declarative' required by ki18n
:: removing qt5-svg breaks dependency 'qt5-svg' required by kiconthemes
:: removing qt5-base breaks dependency 'qt5-base' required by kitemviews
:: removing qt5-x11extras breaks dependency 'qt5-x11extras' required by kjobwidgets
:: removing libdbusmenu-qt5 breaks dependency 'libdbusmenu-qt5' required by knotifications
:: removing qt5-speech breaks dependency 'qt5-speech' required by knotifications
:: removing qt5-speech breaks dependency 'qt5-speech' required by ktextwidgets
:: removing qca-qt5 breaks dependency 'qca-qt5' required by kwallet
:: removing qt5-base breaks dependency 'qt5-base' required by kwidgetsaddons
:: removing qt5-x11extras breaks dependency 'qt5-x11extras' required by kwindowsystem
:: removing qt5-base breaks dependency 'qt5-base' required by solid
:: removing qt5-base breaks dependency 'qt5-base' required by sonnet

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Thank you guys in advance for this nice non-systemd alternative (and probably the best one out there).
 

Re: Feature request: Xfce ISO is too bloated

Reply #1 –
When I started with Artix-Xfce-Runit 2020 the ISO was less than 1 GiB: Even not cups was preinstalled.

That was great!

Last year it still was 1,2 GiB, but that it suddenly grows up to 1,9 GiB: Why?

Please make it slim and efficient again.

Like my Father liked to say: What you don't have, doesn't make any trouble.

Re: Feature request: Xfce ISO is too bloated

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Caramon2 – on

I personally don't care about the size nowadays, since some software can be space consuming (gnome, kde, browsers etc.). I care a lot more about the system's cleanliness and tidiness. And yes, when you boot an ISO, it actually boots and you don't have to google the answer how to disable modesetting and stuff.