Comment 2 for bug 1334668

hi,

what is the library/libraries that moonshot is using that is pulling in the
requirement for X ? the GUI part of moonshot UI obviously...but I guess
there are others...

the 'not going to fix' isnt useful - for sites with security/package
dependence issues its not going to take off

alan

On 26 June 2014 15:44, Sam Hartman <email address hidden> wrote:

> All of the OSes we currently support have policies that ecnourage pulling
> in dependent libraries rather than having multiple varients of packages.
> There are a few exceptions, for example Debian and Ubuntu have nox
> varients of emacs, but by the time you get to systems as complex as
> Moonshot, pulling in libraries is what the packaging policies of the
> distributions do. So, since we wouldn't actually do this at the packaging
> layer, it wouldn't end up being useful.
> People who disagree with this should raise an issue with Redhat, Debian
> and Ubuntu packaging practices/policies.
> If they make headway there we can discuss whether revisiting this makes
> sense.
> Resolving this would be a lot of work.
>
> ** Changed in: moonshot
> Status: New => Won't Fix
>
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> Title:
> moonshot requires X junk
>
> Status in Federated Access Management for Everything:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> when installing moonshot on eg a headless SSH server, it currently
> requires a whole load of other libraries - approx 146Mb of all the
> lovely X11 windows junk.. such a requirement is against wished of
> admins who which to keep their server minimal (ie with known minimal
> package requirement or on low-resource systems eg raspberryPI/ type
> devices.
>
> Propose that we have a moonshot-ui-nox (or such variant) for a flavour
> that doesnt have X *IF* there is a requirement for
> jump-boxing to a further server, then headless option needs to have eg
> ncurses interface for selection/editing of identity
> (much like GPG does for passphrase entry when using eg mutt for email)
>
> alan
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