On 04/07/12 09:34, Lisi wrote:
On Tuesday 03 July 2012 17:43:29 David Hare wrote:
Here the major irritations are metapackages and recommends when installing. I spent a lot of time working out how to exclude (for me) unwanted stuff: kdeaccessibility, kmail, kdesudo, sudo-trinity, kgtk-qt3-trinity, kdegames, kdetoys, kdeadmin, kdenetwork, kpackage ..... Some are on the bug list and can affect the entire system.
I certainly don't want networking nor system admin tasks dependent on any DE
For example, why are kdesudo-trinity and kpackage-trinity "recommends" of kaffeine-trinity? This is in the bug list.
With the bloat (probably also numerous buggy packages) out, TDE is still found here to be the most functional DE available.
This is where ignorance is most definitely _not_ bliss. (Is it ever?) I lag a long way behind you in knowledge of the nitty gritty. So, there is my solution! Get my head down and become more competent! I'm all for avoiding buggy unwanted packages - but have no idea how to exclude them. Other than by installing things one by one, of course, but it doesn't seem to be feasible for the base system.
Lisi
Solution: New tde-lite meta, hopefully referenced in the official installation instructions. Hopefully the deps and recommends of the main packages to be reviewed.
However, I know TDE devs have already a huge task.
I will make a deb and maybe post it unofficially, my usual method is a bit long-winded.
David