[kde-edu]: Step without kdelibs?

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> A Dijous, 11 de febrer de 2010, v_2e at ukr.net va escriure:
> > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:17:35 +0100
> >
> > "Anne-Marie Mahfouf" <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Step is in KDE-Edu since KDE 4.1. If you're using Marble already,
> chances
> > > are that you have the kdelibs for it (except if you use the Qt-only
> > > version). You cannot run Step without the kdelibs nor can you run any
> > > KDE-Edu program without kdelibs. KDE software by definition is software
> > > builds with kdelibs.
> > >
> > > Not sure why you do not want the kde libraries on your system: space?
> > > other reason? If you want to use/develop any KDE program you need those
> > > libs. If you don't want kdelibs, you don't want any KDE and KDE-Edu
> > > programs.
> > >
> > > You can perfectly run/develop Step without runnning KDE workspace
> itself
> > > though. The Plasma Desktop is not needed, you can run Step on GNOME or
> > > other desktop. What you need are Step dependencies and kdelibs is one
> of
> > > them. But kdelibs is not the desktop, Plasma is the desktop. You seem
> to
> > > mix those and I hope this clarifies it.
> > >
> > > Anne-Marie
> >
> >   Thank you for such a quick answer!
> >   I must say I do distinguish between the libraries and desktop, but as
> > I have already said, I don't use anything that needs kdelibs and I
> > don't actually want them to be present in my system just for one
> > application much.
>
> Any reason for that? Is your hard disk that small?
>
> >   I must say that I'm not one of them, but still I'd like the programs
> > I use have as little dependencies as possible.
>
> That's nonsense, a program having as little dependencies as possible means
> programming yourself something that other already programmed.
>
> >   I hope, you understand my thoughts in spite of my poor English. :)
>
> No, I don't understand a single reason of why you don't want to isntall
> kdelibs other than "I do not use it", which is false because you'd use it
> for
> Step.
>
> Albert
>
> >
> >   Thanks.
> >   Vladimir.
> >
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a reason would be I use a non-unix system and there's no easy way to install
KDE.

but of course here the solution is not to remove the dependency.
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