On 09/28/2013 01:38 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
That statement in conjunction with behavior I've observed seems
to
indicate hard dependencies have been created for what on other distros
would be suggests. e.g., 'yum install konsole' results in 1 package plus
190 dependent packages to be installed, among them:
[snip]
yum install kcalc isn't quite so bad, 1 + 125, and yet it's ka ka that a
simple calculator needs qtwebkit, desktop search, firewire and sound
support installed.
If you're installing a KDE application, but don't have KDE installed,
then why is it surprising that it's going to pull in a large part of KDE
and its dependencies? I expect you would get a very similar result if
you tried installing gnome-terminal. If you don't want that, then
install something like xterm or one of the other terminal application
that isn't tied to a large desktop environment.