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Re: Install kde-desktop on existing debian install



On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:22:02 -0500
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

Hello Harry,

> Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> writes:
> > Which is known as a meta package.  It's a shorthand way of pulling in
> > (in this case) lots of other packages.  The full KDE suite, in
> > fact.  
> OK, I was alarmed to see:
> dpkg -L kde-full
> /usr
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/doc
> /usr/share/doc/kde-full
> /usr/share/doc/kde-full/changelog.gz
> /usr/share/doc/kde-full/copyright
> Not much to work with there.

True.  The 'meat' though, is what kde-full depends on.  It's a whole
load of stuff.  Most people will probably never use it all.  IMO, it's
far simpler to install the packages you want, which will pull in any
necessary dependencies.

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