On Wednesday 11 March 2009 07:48:21 pm Larry Stotler wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Rajko M.
wrote: You are not alone with that feeling, and there was debate on opensuse-project mail list. Everybody is invited to meeting tomorrow: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2009-03/msg00083.html
Here was my question:
Is there any way we can fix a lot of the dependency problems I am running into? Like pulseaudio evidently being a requirement for kdebase4 and trying to remove avahi breaking 1/2 the installation. Some of us don't want/need things like beagle(or ANY search), avahi, xine, pulseaudio, amarok, etc. -- Larry Stotler
Well, I got my answer:
<metalgod> of course features like "disable pulseaudio" are unacceptable :)
What a polite way to tell me to f*** off.
His opinion. He's not much different then anybody else. He would like to have more of his toys.
They totally ignored this one:
# Status of getting KPersonalizer or something similar for those of us who don't want/need eye candy?(The biggest reason I don't use KDE4 - takes too long to turn all that crap off) -- Larry Stotler
Well, I thought that meeting was better prepared, but very soon all boiled down to few fixable problems. Besides meeting was too long.
Nice to be a part of the community. Who's Metal God so I can ask him WHY pulseaudio is so frickin important?
It is important for him. The channel is open to anybody that wants to use it. **** On my last installation in VirtualBox pulse audio, beagle, compiz, kde desktop effects, and few other toys were removed without complains, right during installation and VBox run acceptably fast on current machine that is some 1.5 GHz. They are not real dependencies, With a bit of effort you can create your optimal installation, export list of installed software on USB stick, and import after every consecutive installation. YaST will happly remove all that you don't want, and add what you would like to have. I didn't check during installation, but it can be possible. Also, there is something called autoyast. Though, I'm not sure how it works. The guess is, it is for multiple machines with same hardware. Not necessarily identical, but that require same drivers. So, there are solutions, that can make your life easier, while other, that enjoy to have shine, can have it by default. Sincerely, it's always easier to remove something that you know it exist, than to find hidden features. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org