[gentoo-user] Why falkon?

[gentoo-user] Why falkon?

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

Would someone kindly enloghten me as to why the presence of qtwebengine now 
requires installation of www-client/falkon?

$ cat $(equery w kdecore-meta)
# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=6

inherit kde5-meta-pkg

DESCRIPTION="kdecore - merge this to pull in the most basic applications"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
IUSE="+handbook +webengine webkit"

RDEPEND="
        $(add_kdeapps_dep dolphin)
        $(add_kdeapps_dep kdialog)
        $(add_kdeapps_dep keditbookmarks)
        $(add_kdeapps_dep kfind)
        $(add_kdeapps_dep konsole)
        $(add_kdeapps_dep kwrite)
        handbook? ( $(add_kdeapps_dep khelpcenter) )
        webengine? ( www-client/falkon )
        webkit? (
                $(add_kdeapps_dep konqueror 'webengine?')
                kde-misc/kwebkitpart:5
        )
"

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why falkon?

[Neil Bothwick]

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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?
> 
> $ cat $(equery w kdecore-meta)
> # Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> 
> EAPI=6
> 
> inherit kde5-meta-pkg
> 
> DESCRIPTION="kdecore - merge this to pull in the most basic
> applications" KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
> IUSE="+handbook +webengine webkit"
> 
> RDEPEND="
>         $(add_kdeapps_dep dolphin)
>         $(add_kdeapps_dep kdialog)
>         $(add_kdeapps_dep keditbookmarks)
>         $(add_kdeapps_dep kfind)
>         $(add_kdeapps_dep konsole)
>         $(add_kdeapps_dep kwrite)
>         handbook? ( $(add_kdeapps_dep khelpcenter) )
>         webengine? ( www-client/falkon )

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.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"I need your clothes, your boots, and your tagline!"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why falkon?

[Peter Humphrey]

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.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why falkon?

[Peter Humphrey]

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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why falkon?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday, 22 November 2018 17:55:22 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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, ...

That should have been the latter, of course.

> ... 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.