Installing KDE and Removing Ubuntu (Don't want Kubuntu)

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:45:42 +0000 (UTC)
sktsee <sktsee at tulsaconnect.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:32:28 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:18:53 -0300
> > Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > 
> >> Justin wrote:
> >> 
> >> > There's quite a big difference between default KDE and Kubuntu Bruce.
> >> > Kubuntu has lots of alterations, extras, and omissions.
> >> 
> >> Like?  You're not helping by making such sweeping statements and giving
> >> no examples.  I've been using KDE since KDE 1.x, and used KDE3 before I
> >> used Ubuntu, and I still can't see the difference.
> > 
> > I haven't done this for a while, but I remember when I had
> > kubuntu-desktop installed, "aptitude install kde" still wanted to
> > install about 100MB or so of extra stuff.
> 
> That's because kubuntu-desktop is designed to only pull in a certain
> portion of the the kde packages. 

[snips of stuff I already knew]

Yes. Thank you. 

That's what I suggesting, in fact.

> In addition, since you used aptitude for installation, any recommended
> packages got installed as well, unless you disabled that default first.
> Those recommends can sometimes drive up your package count considerably.
> 
Of course.
> 
> > It would be interesting to compare, for example, Slackware's KDE with
> > kubuntu-desktop. As I understand it, Slackware prides itself on sticking
> > closely to upstream versions of everything. I suspect that there is
> > indeed a difference, and that the full KDE has more.
> > 
> > Of course, it's not difficult to install the extra bits if you want
> > them.
> >
> >
> Well like I said, kubuntu-desktop depends on a limited set of KDE
> packages. The other dependencies are a set of packages like shared
> libraries, backends, helper apps, openoffice, etc. Comparing what
> kubuntu-desktop provides against Slackware's list wouldn't be that
> helpful. Comparing a list of KDE packages in Ubuntu's main repository with
> Slackware's KDE list would probably give a better idea of what the
> differences are.

Right. I was simply making the point that Kubuntu is not the complete KDE -
whether Slackware's KDE is complete, I don't know.

It really doesn't matter either way, since the bits are available
anyway. :-)

-- 
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>