[Pan-users] Re: Are gmime and pcre required during runtime?

[Duncan]

Phil <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 20
Jul 2007 15:58:27 -0700:

> 1. Do you happen to know if the pcre and gmime non-lib executables that
> get compiled along with the pcre and gmime static libs are used in some
> way by Pan, or can I safely delete them?  I want to remove unneeded
> stuff to reduce the size of the package I'll make from this.

AFAIK, pan uses the executables in no way, only the libraries.  If pan is 
static-compiled against anything not already on the system, I believe you 
can delete everything but the pan executable itself, which you could 
install to a thumb drive or whatever.  

Alternatively if the ISO image isn't already maxing out the CD/DVD, you 
should be able to mount the ISO image on loopback, add the pan executable 
and menu entry or whatever you want, then unmount it, and burn the 
updated image.

> 2. Is the gmime uuencode and uudecode, which are 0.5MB each, any better
> than say Busybox uuencode/uudecode?

I'm not particularly a busybox fan so know little about its components.  
However, note that the gmime version includes yEnc support (I believe 
that's where pan gets it), while the busybox version may or may not 
include yEnc.  If it does, there may not be a lot of difference.

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