On 2013-09-28 20:28 (GMT-0700) Samuel Sieb composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
That statement in conjunction with behavior I've observed seems to
indicate hard dependencies have been created for what on other distros
would be suggests. e.g., 'yum install konsole' results in 1 package plus
190 dependent packages to be installed, among them:
yum install kcalc isn't quite so bad, 1 + 125, and yet it's ka ka that a
simple calculator needs qtwebkit, desktop search, firewire and sound
support installed.
If you're installing a KDE application, but don't have KDE installed,
then why is it surprising that it's going to pull in a large part of KDE
and its dependencies? I expect you would get a very similar result if
you tried installing gnome-terminal. If you don't want that, then
install something like xterm or one of the other terminal application
that isn't tied to a large desktop environment.
At the root of my OP is these two circumstances:
1-string "minimal" appears only once in output of yum grouplist, not in
conjunction with any of the available DEs
2-a minimal DE is available by installing group "Basic Desktop", but it's
suitable only for those who want Gnome, which I don't. If chosen now on my 3
week old F20 "minimal" installation that is currently consuming 1299555 1K
blocks, 379 packages would be added, names of which only 17 include string x11.
In between installation and starting this thread, I installed other things I
knew I would need anyway that had managed to escape inclusion in the minimal
installation: qt, qt-x11, qt-settings, xorg-x11-xinit, xorg-x11-xauth,
xorg-x11-server-utils, libXft, pango, cairo, and whatever they depend on.
In trying to find a way to reach a state similar to #2 using KDE instead of
Gnome, I had tried installing several KDE apps individually to see what
didn't seem to be required, since if trying to install all the apps I wanted
at once I would have no chance of discerning what might be responsible for
particular items of bloat. What I'd actually like is no more than is
technically required by the DE to run what I need: Konsole, Konqueror,
Ksnapshot, Kcalc and Mozilla-built binaries. It seems before writing here I
should have tried such after adding the above listed intermediates, as the
dep count plummeted.
At this point, 'yum install kdm konsole kcalc konqueror ksnapshot kcm-gtk'
only wants to install 198 packages, with konq apparently a part of
kde-baseapps instead of separate. Almost close enough for gummint work.
Kde-workspace wasn't pulled. Another 32 packages required, of which one x11
(and including the useless but upstream-required pim libs). Done. Only 36.5%
increase in / space consumed not counting 14 needed scalable font packages.
Thread moot, except to maybe plant a seed of easier minimal install of other
DEs than Gnome. I'm not interested any time soon in spending the time it
would take to do what Adam suggested.
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