Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2007 schrieb Thiago Macieira: > >> But the typical user will face the additional penalty of the above > >> three libs. Your stats make the situation look better than it will be > >> for the majority :-( > > Well, no, since libgcc_d isn't typical. In 10 years of Linux, this is the > first time I've heard of it. > > Also, glib is an optional dependency for Qt. We in no way require it in > KDE. (And you can imagine the flame war that would be caused by requiring > it) I know it's optional, yet e. g. Debian builds Qt with glib support by default. Other distributors probably do the same. This means, the typical user not compiling the Qt+KDE stack on his own will be penalised with additional glib+gobject (I don't know whether libgcc_d is part of glib) loading for *every* kde application. Well, actually, we (KDE) can't do anything about it. > > Next, the point wasn't to show that libkdecore links now to 16 or 19. It > was to show that we link to 18 libraries less -- and heavy libraries at > that. This is really a great achievement. I'm also looking forward to the kdeui+kio merge. mfg Leo