Re: [PATCH] RFC: perf, tools: Move gtk browser into separate perfgtkexecutable

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Aug 05 2013 - 04:23:43 EST


On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:16:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If you want fewer dependencies then build with 'make NO_GTK=1'.

Doesn't help the distros. Installing perf and pulling all the graphics
libraries in is highly annoying, especially in size constrained VM or
Cloud images. Having a separate binary or at least an ldopen()able
plugin that can go into a separate package is highly desirable.

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