Feature changed by: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) Feature #313168, revision 3 Title: Suggestion for making KDE4 base apps portable and stand-alone. - openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) + reject reason: This is something that has to be taken up with upstream, + though there has been some work done on this front with the split to + KDE Applications. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: hal dawn (finders) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Suggestion for making KDE4 base apps portable and stand-alone. KDE4 requires me to install apple device compatibility libraries and desktop search if I dare to install any KDE4 application on top of minimal X setup. (I'm not talking about patterns) I don't have any apple devices to use with my KDE4 desktop and I'm not interested in desktop search features, even less interested in social network integration. If I choose to install plasma desktop, kde session, dolphin, kmix, kwrite, ksnapshot and konsole... I'd expect it to install just these things that I asked for, not PIM, sql servers, zeitgeist, strigi and nepomuk. Certainly not libs for my non-existant iphone and my non-existant QR code reader. If I dare to remove any of these dependencies, I end up with broken KDE which should not be the case, I'm aware KDE4 can be built without them. Mandatory libs required for basic functionality should be merged into kdelibs4 package, the rest should be optional. (My opinion anyway) Bonus RPG quote : The Builder places thy challenges before thee as a stairway of hewn stone up the tower of thine life. When thou seekest to add to those challenges, to compass thine pride, thou dost clutter the design of the stairway, and introduce cracks and weaknesses, through which The Trickster mayest enter and bring thy ruin! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313168