26 Feb
2022
26 Feb
'22
10:28 p.m.
On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 20:34:07 +0100
Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon(a)decoulon.ch> wrote:
Maybe building something like Gentoo from scratch
could give a base system
totaly Gnome-free - I don't know.
Speaking as a Gentoo user, the answer is "sort of". Unfortunately, you're
kind of
stuck with librsvg and a couple of others if you have anything GTK.
I currently have seven packages from categories gnome-base and gnome-extra
installed (to support various browsers, Libreoffice, GIMP, Inkscape, etc.), plus a
few Gnome-adjacent packages that live in other categories (like the at-spi2 stuff).
I would say it's extremely difficult at this point in time to run a general-purpose
desktop without any Gnome-adjacent packages on it. The largest issue is
web browsing (qutebrowser and links seem to be free of GTK and at-spi2,
but I wouldn't trust them to support the average Javascript-choked "modern"
website), and your only option for an office suite would be the
KDE5-encumbered Calligra.
E. Liddell