On Thursday, September 02, 2010 06:59:51 pm Lubos Lunak wrote:
On Thursday 02 of September 2010, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Trying to run KMail in LXDE I found that some 75 other programs downloaded too. Among them Akonadi Strigi and so on.
Packages, not programs. And for this high number you presumably count everything needed from the KDE stack and also all packages which are recommended. You can try installing without the recommended packages (e.g. zypper install --no-recommends).
I wondered if I could use an older KMail with less dependencies.
Or you can try to install a version from an older openSUSE release. KDE libraries are backwards compatible, so this generally should work, if you have all requirements.
Or, of course, you can also realize that the number of packages doesn't matter and that the space taken by them is not really that much, especially nowadays.
My plan is to start working with LXDE without loosing my longtime mail program. But it seems that the results of akonadi test program require a quit after which KMail has to be restarted. That behavior has gone in KDE but it is still a problem in LXDE. Thanks. Think the --no-recommends at least helps to reduce the total of packages ;). From 75 (with Yast) to 40 with zypper. But the packages which do give me troubles in LXDE are akonadi and friends. If I am still plagued by akonadi, could I delete all 40 packages installed with KMail? In which version the akonadi nepomuk thing started? How far do I have to go back? Could I do a zypper --no-recommends with an older version? Would have to add this version to my software repositories I assume. And how to avoid an update from this ancient kmail when I zypper dup? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.36-rc3-8-default LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.5.1 (KDE 4.5.1) 19:35pm up 0:03, 1 user, load average: 4.90, 2.38, 0.92 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org