Comment 5 for bug 1334668

yep. a load of X related junk. all that font stuff, all that graphics
library stuff - no purpose on a headless server and waste
of resources. truetype fonts, xinerama, gtk etc - what part of moonshot
needs these things..and can it live without such?

On 27 June 2014 14:40, Rhys Smith <email address hidden> wrote:

> Can confirm that given a VM with minimal install (basic system utils and
> nothing else, no X), installing moonshot-gss-eap and moonshot-ui gives:
>
> Debian packaging - pulls down 73 packages (29M download, 117M
> installed), including some X libraries, but not X itself or a desktop
> environment.
>
> CentOS packaging - pulls down 61 packages (17M download, 71M installed),
> including some X libraries, but not X itself or a desktop environment.
>
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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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