Re: New default web browser on KDE Spin

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
> Actually it does, this is the default for dnf, remove the unneeded
> dependencies.

I don't trust the autoremove feature to do the right thing. It may be
removing too little or too much. And it can be disabled. Which is why I
wrote "not necessarily".

> And the "full set of extra dependencies" over Fedora KDE is only two
> "bookmark" packages, about 10K.

Last I checked, at least libnotify was also dragged in. Either the
dependencies changed recently or you have more GNOME/GTK+ packages
installed.

On a clean F22 KDE, firefox only drags:

astronomy-bookmarks   6  kB
startup-notification         43kB
 

And I'd like to see GTK+ eventually gone from the KDE spin too.

> So we should cripple our spin to make it pure? it already have full and
> lots of other dependencies.

Because a unified look&feel is essential to a properly integrated
distribution. Firefox looks like from another planet. Partly like a GNOME
application, partly not even that.

        Kevin Kofler

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