Is it possible to release a installation package which does not require KDE installation?

[Kåre Särs]

Hi,

On Monday, January 13, 2020 10:43:27 AM EET Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> On 2020-01-13 09:41, Alexander Zhigalin wrote:
> > Sorry, sent it too early
> > You can try the AppImage https://github.com/appimage-packages/kate
> > Sadly the last version is 3 years old...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would not recommend that, it has all security faults of 3 years ago.
> And as said, that has no benefit, hat appimage is larger than the
> dependencies
> you install.
> 
> Greetings
> Christoph
> 
> > 13.01.2020, 09:37, "Alexander Zhigalin" <alexander at zhigalin.tk>:
> >> Hello.
> >> 
> >> Kate is a lot bigger than kdiff3 so it's not possible.
> >> However you can try
> >> 
> >> 13.01.2020, 09:07, "Kevin Gao" <kkegao at gmail.com>:
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>> 
> >>> My machine is not powerful. I generally use XFCE instead of KDE.
> >>> 
> >>> "sudo apt install kate" on Xubuntu requires KDE core lib
> >>> installation, which is very big
> >>> 
> >>> Is it possible to release a installation package which does not
> >>> require KDE installation? (Maybe link KDE lib statically)
> >>> 
> >>> Kdiff3 is an example.  "sudo apt install kate"  on Xubuntu
> >>> requires KDE core lib installation too.

"KDE core lib" I wonder if we are talking about Kate from KDE4 times?

In that case the number of "libraries" to install in a recent distribution 
will be bigger, but the actual size for those will be smaller.

> >>> 
> >>> But Kdiff3 has a much smaller package, named kdiff3-qt, which is
> >>> very convenient for none KDE user. I guess  kdiff3-qt links KDE
> >>> lib statically.

The kdiff3-qt version just does not link any KDE core libraries all. The file 
dialogs and other system integration parts are disabled (no KIO and stuff)

Kate is a heavy user of all those small helper classes found in KDE 
Frameworks, so removing those dependencies is not an option :)

Kate with KF5 is not the same 450MB beast it was in the KDE4 times :)


Regards,
Kåre

> >>> 
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Kevin
> >> 
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