* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?
@ 2017-12-13 17:52 99% ` Walter Dnes
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From: Walter Dnes @ 2017-12-13 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:34:27AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote
> I have three gnome packages installed on this KDE box. One is the
> tiny package that started this thread, and is GNOME only in name,
> the other two are dependencies of XFCE, which I also have installed.
>
> I see no GNOME takeover, beyond the fact that many distros are
> choosing GNOME as their default desktop.
My big hate is the ever-growing dependancy list of gtk. Yes I know
that it's *NOT* supposed to mean "Gnome Tool Kit", but it seems to be
just that. I run ICEWM window manager, but also use gnumeric and
abiword which require gtk+. Over the past few years I've seen various
new hard-coded dependancies crop up when doing...
emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world
adwaita-icon-theme, gtk-engines-adwaita, atk, dbus, harfbuzz,
introspection, libepoxy, etc, etc, etc. How long before pulseaudio and
systemd show up as hard-coded dependancies?
I'm old enough to remember a time when people switched to linux
because it ran fast on older machines that couldn't run the latest
Windows.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
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