On 06/09/10 17:05, Tony Atkinson wrote: > 1) Applications, and their dependence on desktop environment libraries > > Currently certain application rely on specific desktop environment > libraries to operate. > > As examples, > if you install kate on stock Ubuntu 10.04, you pull in 108 packages, > totalling 330Mb
just had a look in a maverick live cd (testdrive is amazing :-) ) sudo apt-get install kate 108 new packages 76.7MB download 272MB disk space sudo apt-get install kate --no-install-recommends 85 new packages 65.2MB download 238MB disk space which is slightly better. i suspect if the KDE libs were split more finely it would mean lots more smaller packages, longer install times, longer upgrade times and more work for devs. so it would be a compromise. sam -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
