Star Interview with SuSE's and KDE's Waldo Bastian
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 16th Jul 2002 20:01 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews OSNews is pleased to host today an exclusive interview with Waldo Bastian, the well known KDE developer and SuSE employee. Waldo has been involved pretty much in all levels in KDE's code, from Konqueror to kdelibs, to games and Kicker. Waldo speaks today about the success of KDE, its future, UnitedLinux, development and much more.
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Oh, and I forget about the Qt dependancy stuff. The equivalent to Qt is four or five packages in Gnome.

Do you know how many library a typical Gnome application depends on ? This is called the dependancy knightmare. I have counted 60 packages for the Gnome 2 release.

Compare this with 16 packages released for KDE 3, plus one for Qt.
IMHO, for me these 16 packages would better be 60. There is one little problem - there are several applications included in KDE, which depend not only on QT and kdelibs, but on several other libraries. I don't use these applications and have no need either for these applications or for these non-KDE libraries. But - the KDE package depends on them, so I have to install them - or they are installed automagically by automation tools.
So, which one is easier to manage?