From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24733 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Sep 2003 06:35:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6735 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 06:35:01 -0000 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:32:23 -0700 From: "C. Brewer" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030928233223.4b684269.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> X-mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5claws Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Multipart_Sun__28_Sep_2003_23_32_23_-0700_=.'9HX_jbAjjNIOm" Subject: [gentoo-dev] What is happening to the desktops? X-Archives-Salt: 589cfafb-ef91-46d0-8978-03107a3f7908 X-Archives-Hash: 489b9833f2c63f7074f3f568b2b10628 --Multipart_Sun__28_Sep_2003_23_32_23_-0700_=.'9HX_jbAjjNIOm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. -- Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. --Multipart_Sun__28_Sep_2003_23_32_23_-0700_=.'9HX_jbAjjNIOm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/d9H6GmszwkJY878RAgN+AJ9Pm9dqcOBKzKGzkJ8z7VGTs86udQCfdXbH sFC3IIhwxjk54T5B6Cm8D6M= =ZQ6r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Multipart_Sun__28_Sep_2003_23_32_23_-0700_=.'9HX_jbAjjNIOm--