On 6/12/23 20:10, Felix Miata wrote:

Why are these demanded, not simply recommends? gptfdisk kdebase3-SuSE-lang libbd* lvm2 xdg-utils xfsprogs This is a 15.5 which previously only had TDE and IceWM. Total installed size after adding the KDE necessaries and additionals I actually have any use for: 2.7G. On other installations I've force removed some and never found their absence to be any apparent problem. I've never used lvm or xfs with any Linux distro, nor any lang but the default. xdg-utils requires a a bunch of extra perl packages, like Pod and Test-Pod*. Why does KDE3 require any perl?

xdg-utils is fairly critical for any desktop configuration -- and yes, it's probably been bandaided together with perl for 25 years :) gptfdisk makes sense for reading of partitions, volumes, disk info, etc.. Whether you have fdisk, sdisk or gptfdisk, they are all basic tools (with sdisk providing CHS configuration if I recall correctly -- old BIOS raid requirement for setup) All are much less than 1M -- so I'd rather have them than not. I suspect this is a konqueror system/media dependency -- will have to check. lvm2 and xfsprogs - more disk/fs utilities libbd - removable blue-ray lib? That's likely another kdelibs dep for accessing those filesystems. I like your minimalist approach and making sure what gets installed is really needed -- but for some of these small general purpose (widely applicable) libs, it would likely take a source-tree search to find out where and if they are true dependencies. (we need a git repo or buildservice project that holds the kde3 source-tree for just this type question -- otherwise, a user must download and extract every .srpm just to have a local source-tree to work from ...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.