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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:34:27AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> I have three gnome packages installed on this KDE box. One is the |
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> tiny package that started this thread, and is GNOME only in name, |
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> the other two are dependencies of XFCE, which I also have installed. |
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> I see no GNOME takeover, beyond the fact that many distros are |
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> choosing GNOME as their default desktop. |
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My big hate is the ever-growing dependancy list of gtk. Yes I know |
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that it's *NOT* supposed to mean "Gnome Tool Kit", but it seems to be |
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just that. I run ICEWM window manager, but also use gnumeric and |
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abiword which require gtk+. Over the past few years I've seen various |
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new hard-coded dependancies crop up when doing... |
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emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world |
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adwaita-icon-theme, gtk-engines-adwaita, atk, dbus, harfbuzz, |
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introspection, libepoxy, etc, etc, etc. How long before pulseaudio and |
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systemd show up as hard-coded dependancies? |
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I'm old enough to remember a time when people switched to linux |
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because it ran fast on older machines that couldn't run the latest |
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Windows. |
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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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