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Re: Installing KDE4 on Sid



On Jan 23, 2008 7:58 AM, David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> wrote:
> Found this one, apparantly on Sid rather than experimental:
> kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4
>
> Attempt to install brings in a slew of other stuff (which may not actually be
> available since this was the only thing found in a search for "KDE4" on Sid.
>
> I am NOT using udev. Too many problems reported (though live CDs using it work
> just fine on my system so maybe it is time ....).

Udev has always worked fine for me...

> The installation of that
> runtime seems to demand udev. So ... does KDE4 (or even KDE3.5.8--I have a
> "konstruct" KDE3.5.6 on my system which works fine without udev!) really
> require udev? I think not. So could this dependency be removed?

I don't see that kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 requires udev. All I see is a
recommends for hal, which requires udev. However, I suspect Solid will
not work correctly in all cases without hal, and thus udev.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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