On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:34:27AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote > I have three gnome packages installed on this KDE box. One is the > tiny package that started this thread, and is GNOME only in name, > the other two are dependencies of XFCE, which I also have installed. > > I see no GNOME takeover, beyond the fact that many distros are > choosing GNOME as their default desktop.
My big hate is the ever-growing dependancy list of gtk. Yes I know that it's *NOT* supposed to mean "Gnome Tool Kit", but it seems to be just that. I run ICEWM window manager, but also use gnumeric and abiword which require gtk+. Over the past few years I've seen various new hard-coded dependancies crop up when doing... emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world adwaita-icon-theme, gtk-engines-adwaita, atk, dbus, harfbuzz, introspection, libepoxy, etc, etc, etc. How long before pulseaudio and systemd show up as hard-coded dependancies? I'm old enough to remember a time when people switched to linux because it ran fast on older machines that couldn't run the latest Windows. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
