On Thursday, 22 November 2018 17:55:22 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:26:14 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 19 November 2018 23:40:04 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:27:30 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Would someone kindly enloghten me as to why the presence of > > > > qtwebengine > > > > now requires installation of www-client/falkon? > > > > --->8 > > > > > It doesn't, it's the kdecore-meta package that depends on it, controlled > > > by the webengine USE flag. qtwebengine doesn't require falkon at all, > > > it's the other way round. > > > > Hmm. I see what you mean. Maybe this is the straw that makes me strip out > > all the stuff I don't need, by removing meta-packages and just installing > > what I want. After all, there's a limit to the number of web browsers a > > body might need. > > I did that, and got rid of a large number of packages I don't need. > > A word of advice though, if I may, to anyone else who tries slimming plasma > down: you do need kdedesktop, not just kdeworkspace. When I tried just the > former of those two, ...
That should have been the latter, of course. > ... I got an "all shell packages missing" error (or > something like that) at plasma startup via sddm, together with a black > screen. Windows opened and closed all right, but the system clearly wasn't > happy. -- Regards, Peter.
