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, 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. -- Regards, Peter.
