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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:29:21PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote |
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> SLAX is using KDE4 - and uses 200mb. |
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> KDE is flexible. If you have lots of memory, it does use lots of |
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> memory. If you don't it doesn't. So don't group it together with |
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> 'lets force mono unto our users - for a notes application' gnome or |
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> 'you can always add another 4gig' chrome. |
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What about 'lets force dbus/libmpeg2/qt-webkit/phonon and a relational |
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database on our users - for a pdf viewer'? |
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I have a stripped-down no-nonsense install on all my machines with the |
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USE variable beginning with "-*", and only necessary stuff being added. |
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When xpdf was deprecated, one of the suggested alternatives was |
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"okular". It requires qt3support, which in turn requires the |
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"accessibility" USE flag. And qt-gui is required which requires the |
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"dbus" flag. And oh yeah, I'd have to unmask dbus. |
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And dee first dependancy requires dee second dependancy |
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And dee second dependancy requires dee third dependancy |
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And dee third dependancy requires dee fourth dependancy |
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etc, etc, etc |
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After unmasking dbus and adding a bunch of USE flags, I finally got |
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rid of the emerge error messages... |
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USE="accessibility dbus glib qt3support sqlite gstreamer" emerge -p okular |
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Total: 59 packages (59 new), Size of downloads: 347,087 kB |
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A stinking pdf viewer requires, amongst other things... |
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libmpeg2 dbus desktop-file-utils strigi xdg-utils qt-webkit phonon |
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and *A RELATIONAL DATABASE* (Hello!?!?), of which the lightest available |
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is sqlite. Don't waste your time trying to convince me that KDE is |
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lightweight. I run ICEWM. See my sig... |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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