On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 16:58, David Walser wrote: > Quel Qun wrote: > > The problem is not coming from KDE, but from Mandrake. The only thing causing > > the requirement on kdebase is the galaxy-kde, which should not be required by > > kdelibs to start with. > > If you really want to force people who actually use KDE to get the Mandrake > > look, make kdebase require galaxy-kde, although this is already abusive. > > Kde applications can be compiled (and run) with only the kdelibs rpms. It was > > working pretty well before, why break it? > > Well kdelibs is configured to use the galaxy theme by default, so it > kinda has to require it. *Maybe* that wouldn't be necessary if the > installer just made sure galaxy-kde got installed by default, but the > Requires still might makes sense (like what if someone does a custom > package installation?). > Install kdelibs with --nodeps and kdeutils, no other kde package, no galaxy-kde. kcalc (and many other kde applications) will run just fine. Since when libraries have to be configured? They are just a repository of functions, aren't they?
> galaxy-kde requiring something from kdebase is a problem though. Maybe > that could be fixed? That would be fine, although I would prefer this rpm tied to kdebase than to kdelibs. If I write an app, I want it to be installable on a RH machine, so I will avoid using Mandrake specific libs anyway. -- Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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