Mandrake is a GUI based, KDE centered distro. If
you're going to run a GUI anyway, and use GUI admin
tools, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having to
have Qt. If you don't want the GUI admin tools use
console based ones.
--- Geoffrey Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You have not read the remark carefully. Why would
> you want to program such a
> tool with a desktop library (note: KDE isn't just
> any old toolkit)? Gnome
> users aren't going to be too happy that they have to
> install qt for their
> administrative tools to work. That doesn't seem very
> fair.
>
> Personally, I also think that Gtk is pretty
> lightweight, as shown:
>
> glee@anakin ~ $ rpm -qi libglib1.2 libgtk+1.2 | grep
> Size | awk '{x+=$3} END {print x/(1024**2)}'
>
> 1.90114
> glee@anakin ~ $
>
> 2 MB for a very easy-to-program and complete
> toolkit.
>
> Regarding the offending library (gtk/glib),
> currently we use usermode (from rh)
> and in GUI this requires gtk. So you end up having
> to install gtk anyway.
>
>
> -- Geoff.
>
>
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