On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 01:10:16 +0000 Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:
> On 29/12/13 00:14, Edward M wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to give kmail a try but i'm confuse why multimedia libs > > depends are needed for an email client. > > Perhaps because a lot of software nowadays attempts to do everything > at once. Maybe it plays sound attachments inside of the client. Now after you mention it, I agree. I only send text emails > > I get the following media-libs when i > > execute emerge -a kmail: > > > > [snip] > > I recommend that you use the â-tâ portage flag in the future to see > what pulls in what. I also recommend â-vâ. Thanks for the recommendation, I will use them in the future. >Now, having said that, I don't see anything directly in the ebuild > that would pull in those libraries. Here's however what I got when > seeing what it will do on a system with gstreamer USE and no KDE: > > # required by media-libs/phonon-gstreamer-4.7.1 > # required by media-libs/phonon-4.7.1[gstreamer] > # required by kde-base/kdelibs-4.12.0 > # required by kde-base/korganizer-4.12.0 > # required by kde-base/kmail-4.12.0 > # required by kmail (argument) > >=media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r8:0.10 vorbis > > > So maybe KDE is pulling in something. I guess I will continue using claws-mail,since i only send text emails. Thanks for new options i was not aware.