Re: Gnumeric - too big

["Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

> I have another experience. After I have installed Debian, my
package
> management program becomes a mess, and I install new packages with
> dpkg after downloading from the Debian site. Although
> I do not run gnome, I installed gnumeric this way (in Potato), and
had
> to install only a few extra packages (do not remember which ones,
> but less than five) because of dependencies. Gnumeric runs fairly
well
> now.

I was quite surprised with Opera also... Since it's a QT
application, I was concerned that I'd need to install various qt
libs and possibly even some KDE, depending on how things were
packaged. Luckily, it only req'd (not including what I already had
installed) libqt2.

Hall