I went ahead and tried to get kde-standard in the following way: "aptitude install kde-plasma-desktop" "aptitude install --without-recommends kde-standard"
Here are my findings: On 2010-05-08 Diederik de Haas wrote: > After rebooting and logging into KDE I noticed the following things: > - When plugging in a usb device, device-notifier didn't notice anything and > the only way to access that usb device was to use mount it from Konsole > - The battery monitor didn't work at all > - I did not have a suspend to disk/ram option > - System Monitor - Harddisk didn't see any partitions Device notifier works as expected, battery monitor works, suspend to disk/ram is not only available, but even working :-) system monitor - harddisk picks up my / and /home just as expected. > The difference in --with-recommends and --without-recommends are so big wrt > kde-standard that I think kde-standard should be installed with the > recommended packages. > But leaving out network-manager-kde seems to also not install some packages > which may have contributed to the problems described above. On first > inspection libgudev-1.0-0 and libknotificationitem-1-1 seem especially > relevant. Since all previous reported issues work now, network-manager-kde is not needed, nor it's dependencies. > So I would like to know how other ppl are installing kde(-standard) without > bloating their system, but with a properly functional one. > Tips/tricks/etc are also welcome. Although I fixed the issues I had, I'm still interested, especially ppls experience with recommended packages. Regards, Diederik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

