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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.
Which one is easier to manage in your opinion ?
Answer:
Qt alone depends on many external packagakes (not as much as Gtk which is itself composed of several libraries) and Kde depends on still more, in addition to the burden carried from Qt. True, Gnome is composed of more individual packages and these depend on more packages than Kde. However, the picture you paint is very misleading.
There are advantages and disadvantages. Kde is easier to build from source. However, Gnome is more modular. Unless your're building a Gnome development environment, in which case you need all the libraries and development libraries, Gnome allows more flexibility.
This is a very minor issue which will be somewhat resolved by consolidating some of the Gnome libraries in the future.
By the way, the total Gnome 2 release is not a "typical Gnome application". It includes many libraries and applications. So, you are saying that total dependencies for all Gnome applicationsis 60 packages.