[Chart] Splitting gtk stuff into a separate package

[Ben Gamari]

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For what it's worth, this sounds like a fine idea to me.

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:57:42 +0400, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think it's worth cutting gtk-related stuff (all that depends on
> -fgtk) into a separate package for the following reasons:
> 
> * building gtk bindings is horrendously slow, up to an hour or two
> with profiling, and it gets repeated if you mess something up
> (happened to me more than once). It's very good to eliminate this from
> a clean install of Chart.
> 
> * on some platforms (eg the default amazon ec2 Ubuntu image) gtk
> carries a ton of dependencies which are also sometimes difficult to
> install and easy to mess up (I messed up my ec2 env so much that I
> surrendered)
> 
> * usage of Chart without -fgtk is very common, so it's a completely
> orthogonal part and can be safely split out.
> 
> I have actually completed the split on my machine, but I'll be able to
> send the patch only tomorrow.  In the meantime, please let me know
> what you think:
> 
> * is this a good idea? 
> * if yes, how would you like to name the gtk package? Is Chart-gtk fine? 
> * do we need a new darcs repo for that package?
>