<snip>Hello, I'd like to congratulate the team on the work done so far, but I'd also like to point out an area where more work could be done: kmail. On my XFce4 system, installing kmail involves installing 34 other packages as well, thus: $ emerge -p kmail These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
While I'm not one of the developers, I think that you've given a bad example. Granted, there may be one or two packages in your list that seems extraneous, (I'm willing to bet you can alter your use flags to get rid of those) but pretty much everything in there seemed pretty necessary for a functioning kmail system. I think perhaps your problem (dilema might be a better word) is that you're expecting kmail to run without much support from kde, and I think that is somewhat unreasonable. In fact, most kde applications are going to be like that. Gnome stuff is the same way. Trust me, I'm not overly fond of the fact that I need to install so much gnome crap just to run evolution, but it is one of the disadvantages of using a feature laden desktop manager/API for just one piece of software that you need to take into consideration. I know that you were hoping for some guru to pound out a kmail-xxx.ebuild file that would only require dcop, but like I said, I don't think that is very feasible, and quite frankly I think that you're getting off light with just those 34. Just my $0.06 (unadjusted for inflation)
