Hello, I'd like to congratulate the team on the work done so far, but I'd also like to point out an area where more work could be done: kmail.
On my XFce4 system, installing kmail involves installing 34 other packages as well, thus: $ emerge -p kmail These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r3 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kde-env-3-r3 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libpcre-5.0 [ebuild N ] net-dns/libidn-0.5.15 [ebuild N ] net-nds/portmap-5b-r9 [ebuild N ] app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r2 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.0-r1 [ebuild N ] kde-base/libksieve-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/ktnef-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/libkcal-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/libkdepim-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/libkpgp-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/pth-2.0.3 [ebuild NS ] app-crypt/gpgme-1.0.2 [ebuild N ] kde-base/libkdenetwork-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/certmanager-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/libkpimidentities-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kontact-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/mimelib-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-4 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-data-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kcminit-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kcontrol-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdm-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/libkonq-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/eject-2.0.13-r1 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kcheckpass-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdesktop-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdialog-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20-r2 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/libkmime-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdepim-kioslaves-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kmailcvt-3.4.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kmail-3.4.0 Total size of downloads: 69,350 kB (ok, I cheated here) This seems to signal a need for more splitting to be done - installing that lot would almost give me a working KDE system on top of XFce. As alternatives to kmail I've tried sylpheed, sylpheed-claws and evolution, but none of those suit my way of working nearly as well, which is why I'd like to install kmail if it weren't so heavy. Meanwhile I haven't yet decided which of KDE, Gnome or XFce to choose. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93. -- [email protected] mailing list
