On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:33:55PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > At the encouragement of Luk Claes, I would like to raise this subject in > the general mailing list. > > It has been my impression that when using aptitude and requesting to > install/upgrade desktops (KDE, maybe also Gnome), several other > packages, which don't interest me, are installed as well. They cause a > bloat to the installation and longer upgrade times in the future. > > I agree with Luk that it is reasonable to recommend the installation of > games, texlive-* and other goodies with packages like KDE and Gnome. My > problem is that the desktop packages REQUIRE the cruft. > > Example: > kde depends on kdegraphics (will be broken without this dependence) > kdegraphics depends upon kdvi (will be broken without this dependence) > kdvi depends upon some texlive-* packages > > So satisfying those dependences would pull in lots of texlive stuff, > even if one has no need for TeX related files. > > My wish is that modularization of Debian packages be improved. It means > that it'll be possible to uninstall all games in a PC and continue to > have functioning KDE. Likewise - TeX.
kde is a metapackage that includes _all_ KDE that is not related to development. If you just want a functional KDE without games and related stuff look at kde-core. Then you can install what you want else using the modules metapackages (kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdeadmin....) or just the application you are missing. Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
