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On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 22:05:01 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> *IMPORTANT* KDE is obscene about dependancies. E.g. when a |
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> lightweight pdf-reader was phased out, I looked at various options |
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> including okular. It's an "itty-bitty-little-applet"... that seems to |
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> pull in 90% of KDE as dependancies. |
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If you had read the description of Okular in eix you would have known that |
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it is niether lightweight, nor standalone |
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"Universal document viewer based on KDE Frameworks" |
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Calling such an animal an itty-bitty-applet is doing it a grave |
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injustice, as is trying to use it as one. |
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The thing with KDE is that it is designed as an integrated environment |
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and intended to be used as such. So trying to install an individual |
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program is bound to bring in the backend support stuff. |
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Switching to a non-KDE profile, unmerging everything KDE with |
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emerge -cav $(qfile -IC kde) |
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and then installing lxde-meta should do what you want. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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