On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 07:27:32 AM -0700, Michael A. Peters (mpeters@xxxxxxx) wrote: > On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 12:54 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I want to figure out how to install stable, already packaged > > versions of only some KDE applications on a Fedora Core 3 system > > which already has X and Qt. [...] > > The purpose is to build a mini-KDe desktop for basic SOHO > > applications which has modern functionality (gpg, Khtml, Imap > > OpenDocument support...) but is as light as possible on RAM and > > hard drive. > > Many apps are linked against libraries as a compile time detection - and > the same package can be built so it is NOT linked against the libraries. > > The way to do it is to remove the BuildRequires for those packages and > build in mach - that way the resulting rpm's won't be linked against the > optional libraries you don't want. > > You also could disable the optional libraries explicitly in the spec > spec file at the configure line. > Michael, Thanks for the prompt answer. I will experiment as you suggest, but what did you exactly mean with the "build in mach" bit above? I understand the rest of your message, but that piece of sentence confused me... Related question: is there anything I could read to understand a priori, with the smallest number of trial and errors, what can be unlinked? I am prepared to try them one at a time, if really needed, but if there is a way around... Thanks again, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom but license. John Milton -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list