why kdelibs?

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> On the other hand, Krita would, I am sure, much bigger if it didn't depend on the KDE platform. For KOffice, we had to hack down kdelibs and package a pre-generated sycoca to make it work. The platform fills in the holes on unix platforms, but it's a pain everywhere else.

We have the same issue in Amarok:

Our current Windows build is (in compressed form) 150 Megabytes.

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Mark Kretschmann
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