From opensuse Thu Apr 28 09:15:21 2016 From: John Layt Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:15:21 +0000 To: opensuse Subject: Re: [opensuse] KMail5 Dependencies Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=opensuse&m=146183529331768 On 28 April 2016 at 08:55, sdm wrote: > I was curious about trying KMail5, but it needs a whole ton of hard > dependencies to even install. PIM libraries, Akonadi, and on and on. When I > install Thunderbird, it needs 0 dependencies. It doesn't even try to install > 1 extra dependency. The last time I saw developers and package maintainers > discussing Akondai, the gist I got from what they were saying was that it's > pure crap and just a total mess that needs to be trashed. So, my question > is, what does KMail5 need so many dependencies? It just looks like a ton of > bloat; I don't want Akonadi or PIM or any of that stuff. All I would want is > an email client and that's it. I guess I'll stick with Tbird, even though a > non-GTK email client would be nice in the future. A quick check shows: kmail5 = 9.3Mb Various KF5, PIM and Akonadi libraries ~= 65Mb MozillaThunderbird = 83Mb Various Mozilla libraries = 2Mb Who's bloated now? And over the next few releases that dependency tree will be cut that down ever more. Breaking something up into many components so people can choose which bits they want isn't bloat, quite the opposite. People for years complained how big and monolithic KDE software was, now we break it up everyone complains how many packages there are... John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org