On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 12:14 -0500, David Jensen wrote: > randhir phagura wrote: > > > blfs6(blfs-book-cvs-2005-05-16) and have decided to install gnome2. I > > havent had a very good experience so far. > > > I couldn't find a copy of 20050516 so I'm looking at 20050524 > > > Firstly, there are numerous dependencies and secondly, even after > > going through all that 'torture' the results that I have obtained are > > no where as comparable to what one gets after loading kde and that too > > with much less effort. > > qt duplicates a lot of standard libraries including, I believe, a lot of > glibc and stdc++. That's why it's so big.
The duplication isn't much more than that of glib providing it's own framework for collections and stuff. No, the difference is more that KDE choose to release a small number of large packages, while Gnome does it the other way around. I suspect the Gnome way works well for the package maintainers since it reduces the amount of coordination effort needed for releases, but it makes a source install a lot more work. Most of the devs use scripted setups like jhbuild to build everything... Simon.
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