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Why does the breeze theme have 50 dependencies? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by DJSpunTheDisc@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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(This is a half-rant half actual question)

I wanted a nice qt theme to use on Scribus since Arc Dark doesn't work on there. When I tried to install it, pacman said this will install 50 packages. 300 Mb in total.

Why does a theme need packages such as Kauth and Kwallet?

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[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd check that you're actually installing the most appropriate package. For instance on Ubuntu there's kid3 which is a MP3 tag application that will pull in the entire k desktop environment. Or you can install kid3-qt which packages its own version of those dependencies and doesn't pull an entire desktop environment in if you're using a non-kde environment.

[–] __jov@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu is really bad with this. Installing npm pulls adwaita icon theme, xorg and half the gnome desktop for some reason.

[–] DJSpunTheDisc@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

kid3 which is a MP3 tag application that will pull in the entire k desktop environment.

Mental illness. And it seems breeze is the only package which offers the QT theme.