-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-29 at 00:10 -0500, Bob S wrote:
In other words, what you were trying to say is that you wanted to uninstall kde. OK, Note that you *do not* have to reinstall the OS, when you decide that you want kde again.
No guys, what he is saying is that he wants an install without a lot of stuff that he really doesn't need or want, and, if they do get installed that he wants to uninstall them. He is right. If you will never use the multimedia stuff why install it. And why should multi-media be a requirement for theOS/ desktop?
Yes, that's ok. There is a tick box for the multimedia pattern in software management. Just untick it. It is not a requirement.
Especially poignant, is the example of kpowersave. If you don't have a laptop why is it necessary to install it? The dependencies are completely illogical. Why should all of KDE have a dependency for kpowersave?
Why do you think it is illogical? It's not only for laptops. If you really think those dependencies are absurd, open a bugzilla requesting the dependencies be dropped, and see what they say. But he just went ahead and said yes to uninstall kde. Is that logical?
I can certainly see an application having a dependency for certain things in the basic desktop system. I cannot see why the desktop system would have a dependency on an obscure add-on type of application to function. That is bass ackwards! Guess I just don't understand. I'm not a software designer/engineer. Maybe there is some logical reason, somewhere, somehow.
There sure is.
There is a bunch of stuff I would like to get rid of also. Including kpowersave. When I see the dependency hell to remove something I don't want, I just sigh, shrug my shoulders, wonder how that could possibly be, and thank the lord that we now have these huge hard drives that will carry the bloat.
And... how many hundreds of megabytes will removing that package save? Is it worth the time and effort spent? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHdi2atTMYHG2NR9URAqHzAJ4i2Zb1Z6PS5EiX8nKSbp97kYR5vACfVZdq ipZhlGk6dh7iU+cxUsqxfuo= =lU9u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org