I was checking out the latest in the desktop area (I use a wm,and have for
a while, but I like to see what's new and exciting), and the amount of
depends getting listed is mind-boggling. For example, the KDE website says
there is very little (if any) dependencies..but if certain libs are found it
will build support for them..if not, you won't notice. For example-
divx4linux? portmap? fam? win32codecs? A lot of this stuff isn't triggered
by USE flags, either. I remember a ways back, emerging kde meant arts,qt and
the 13 or 15 kde packages..which strangely enough all started with kde*. I
rather suspect its the same in GNOME also, but it appears from a glance to a
much smaller extent. I realize that it's probably to add more function for
the busy or uninitiated, but after reading the previous threads, I too would
like to see things closer to vanilla. I remember the frustrations of doing
KDE from rpm and thinking stuff like "wtf, I don't want mysql or xanim or
xine or OBDC or any of this other crap, I want to see what it looks like
bare-bones style".

I know I'm prolly gonna hear the "if you don't like it, don't build it"
attitude at least once, but I'd just like to check something out without
building 30 pkgs I wont see just to check out the 15 I will.

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Chuck Brewer
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