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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's one of those packages that are only put in the repo with the intent on being itself a dependency of the full kde desktop, since it's a component of the deskop and not just a random theme

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Even on Gentoo, which is parsimonious about dependencies, installing breeze pulls in a good chunk of KDE (although you can get just the icons as a separate package). I imagine it includes window decorations and such which need to be compiled against some of the KDE base code, and that's pulling in everything else.

I'd suggest qt5ct if you're trying to set up theming for a few QT5 programs on a non-QT5 desktop. It provides a basic GUI for changing colours/fonts/styles/icons rather than a prepackaged theme that may contain more than you want.