From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPHOt-0002Cz-Hp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 16:57:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20E441C0AE; Wed, 25 May 2011 16:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BED661C0AE for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 16:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so3636079wwi.4 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 09:55:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=MqGHlKFTDjxX2nVXtrEzcGtyrGidNh8Sb8TuJ6bj9K8=; b=uB2MqUEx8ki/fEPeT4Ljmx5cfz7yi+tKweCOwdP3wd+Dh/63RcJOVrqsRATI+oHHFF IbFjp05N6qmH91IsdzLqw0ZAhFOIX4fU4UXogzz/UfcBFwPBHymSlqKDsRNMpzKXBJ4X Wn2TFs5E/9Sg+5F9wkZ1uBYzuTs3pC3BOA7ck= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=mK1qeSp9+NRjTZPd6v6ptzMej1XaS9bV7Jsf+dVxaRTG/Cudxoj9vxVvOquxpLiGog 91tTLRYqvHEUkCvp2J0sPhCiuT6yDjEax2u3M+6jgJzNzgnshiIZWc6xSLI8dQU6iFud f1nFmp4dmXjPG5pEU8FUfgm9ZHt495dF7/fBc= Received: by 10.216.60.144 with SMTP id u16mr262559wec.103.1306342527957; Wed, 25 May 2011 09:55:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x20sm401767wec.22.2011.05.25.09.55.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 May 2011 09:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5 Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:54:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110525124648.GA29507@gaurahari.merseine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20110525124648.GA29507@gaurahari.merseine.nu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105251854.39783.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3691f1599024b2928ccdd540d56376ca Apparently, though unproven, at 14:46 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: > For people already running kde it's ok, but for the rest of us > it's a bit ridiculous, isn't it? > I used to use a few "k" apps in the 3 days, they were small and > easily integrated into the system. Now kde is like it's own OS, > so they've basically eliminated their apps from consideration of > non-kde users. > > Not that it matters much to me, one of the strengths of gentoo > is how many ways there are to do a given task. > But there are quite a few kde zealots who seem to be completely > unaware of what we mean by "fast, light, standalone". > > I guess some people didn't experience the 80s or 90s. > > :) It doesn't make sense running koffice without also running KDE, it's a hard requirement. And not only did I experience the 80s and 90s, but the 70s as well. So now that you have defined what fast, light, standalone means by your current needs, it is obvious that no such package exists and hence there is a gap in the market. Now we know what your next project will be. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com