minimalist KDE in natty

[Robert Simmons]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2011/01/25 11:05 (GMT-0800) Jim Kielman composed:
>
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>
>>>  Surely some of these shouldn't be requirements, e.g. *netbook* or
>>>  *games*. I tried just khelpcenter4, libdiscid0, okular,
>>>  libpoppler-qt4-3, software-properties-kde, language-selector-qt. Still
>>>  no go, but .xsession-errors size went down 3/4 to 32k. Maybe KDE is
>>>  currently broken?
>
>> Have a look at kde-standard, or kde-plasma-desktop, to see if they are
>> what you want
>
> Standard is too bloated, wants to install 64 more packages, including kmail,
> dragonplayer, kopete, kaddressbook, korganizer, kmix & knotes.
> Plasma-desktop --no-install-recommends or not held to 4: pd, kdebase-apps,
> kdepasswd, kwrite. I proceeded with PD, but still can't get past a
> mousepointer on a blue background. .xsession-errors remains 32k:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Buntu/xsession-errors2
>
> After, no-install-recommends kde-standard still wanted to add 42, still
> including kmail, kaddressbook, kopete, dragonplayer, korganizer. I
> proceeded, and still can't get past a mousepointer on a blue background.
> .xsession-errors is down to just under 20k
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Buntu/xsession-errors3
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Well, I may need to put on a flame retardant jumpsuit here, but you
could look at the dependencies that FreeBSD uses for their naked KDE4
meta package and copy that and roll your own meta package.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=kde4&stype=all&sektion=x11

It's all right there in alpabetical order with version numbers for everything.