Kubuntu a dist in crisis?

[Perry]

Le Monday 26 October 2009 15:37:46 Clay Weber, vous avez écrit :
> On Monday 26 October 2009 03:24:22 am Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 23:33 -0400, Clay Weber wrote:
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> > Something as dumb as installing Evolution, a gnome app, I expect. Ric
>
>  
> That's not a dumb thing to do. It *is* a Gnome app after all, so it needs
> Gnome things. Ubuntu decides what it's packages depend on, and that is why
> Evolution pulls in not only base Gnome things, it pulls in other
> gnome/Ubuntu specifics as well, like pulseaudio, among other things. I
> don't believe there is a simple way around this. It goes the other way as
> well; installing kontact in Ubuntu pulls in tons of extras, I am sure.
>
> A way to minimize this is to install packages with apt using the ''--no-
> install-recommends" flag. Even installing synaptic in Karmic pulls in a
> number of extra (and unneeded in KDE) stuff. I wonder if there is a way to
> specify this flag in apt's configuration somewhere, as well as what the
> consequences would be?
>
>
> clay
A couple of years ago I installed next to my SuSe (and M$) a gnome Ubuntu, and 
seeing it was too different from what I was used to, I installed Kde, could 
boot in both, had cluttered (K)menus with same purpose apps from both 
origins, it caused me some uncertainties about which package manager to use 
(do they share the same data base?), but I survived and so did the systems 
(until a hardware crahs occured).

So my question is: what is wrong in pulling some gnome stuff in Kubuntu?

Greetings		Perry

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