On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 10:04:29AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 22:05:01 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > *IMPORTANT* KDE is obscene about dependancies. E.g. when a > > lightweight pdf-reader was phased out, I looked at various options > > including okular. It's an "itty-bitty-little-applet"... that seems to > > pull in 90% of KDE as dependancies. > > If you had read the description of Okular in eix you would have > known that it is niether lightweight, nor standalone > > "Universal document viewer based on KDE Frameworks" > > Calling such an animal an itty-bitty-applet is doing it a grave > injustice, as is trying to use it as one. > > The thing with KDE is that it is designed as an integrated environment > and intended to be used as such. So trying to install an individual > program is bound to bring in the backend support stuff.
That's the point I was trying to make. It's all or nothing. The question was how to get rid of KDE libraries/framework. I replied that Harry would have to get rid of every last KDE-based app(lication) in the process. There is no such animal as a "small KDE app". It reminds me of Internet Explorer back in the day. People claimed that they could "remove Internet Explorer" by deleting "ie.exe". But ie.exe was simply a collection of calls to various built-in Windows libraries. That's why "it was so small". Meanwhile Firefox and Opera had to launch real programs. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
