On Wednesday 08 May 2013 05:36 my mailbox was graced by a message from Kevin
Krammer who wrote:
> I doubt Claws or any mail user agent can provide the same functionality of
> all KDE [1] software products people are currently using.
> Might be able to replace KMail, but I have my doubts on whether they would
> be able to work as a desktop shell, a document viewer, file manager,
> browser, calendar, text editor, etc.
> [1] assuming for a moment that you accidentally used the vendor name to
> refer to all software products of said vendor
Well, this is the problem: I am not looking for all the functionalities of
KDE, just looking for a mail client, to add to the small install on a palmtop
with limited HD capacity, and thought of KMail which I use daily on the
desktop.
So I try "urpmi kmail", and find it wants to install almost 300 Mb of software
(in 137 packages) just to add Kmail to a non-KDE install...{1]
Hence my reference to bloatware, which seems to have offended in which case I
would present my apologies, and say I did not wish to offend, just state a
fact.
Cheers,
Ron.
1 For comparison, an "urpmi claws-mail" takes up 15 Mb with 8 packages.
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pour supporter les maux d'autrui.
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