Re: [gentoo-user] Why falkon?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday, 22 November 2018 17:55:22 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:26:14 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Monday, 19 November 2018 23:40:04 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:27:30 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > Would someone kindly enloghten me as to why the presence of
> > > > qtwebengine
> > > > now requires installation of www-client/falkon?
> >
> > --->8
> >
> > > It doesn't, it's the kdecore-meta package that depends on it, controlled
> > > by the webengine USE flag. qtwebengine doesn't require falkon at all,
> > > it's the other way round.
> >
> > Hmm. I see what you mean. Maybe this is the straw that makes me strip out
> > all the stuff I don't need, by removing meta-packages and just installing
> > what I want. After all, there's a limit to the number of web browsers a
> > body might need.
>
> I did that, and got rid of a large number of packages I don't need.
>
> A word of advice though, if I may, to anyone else who tries slimming plasma
> down: you do need kdedesktop, not just kdeworkspace. When I tried just the
> former of those two, ...

That should have been the latter, of course.

> ... I got an "all shell packages missing" error (or
> something like that) at plasma startup via sddm, together with a black
> screen. Windows opened and closed all right, but the system clearly wasn't
> happy.

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Regards,
Peter.