Kubuntu a dist in crisis?

Pastor JW pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org
Mon Oct 26 19:56:20 UTC 2009


On Monday 26 October 2009 12:12:43 pm Perry wrote:
> 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:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > 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?

You get Pulseaudio.


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