(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?

  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    If it’s packaged right, Breeze is gonna need those 50 dependencies whether it’s in Flatpak or not.

        • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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          1 year ago

          The point is, it’s all self-contained within Flatpak, and won’t slow down and pollute your regular package manager when you’re doing updates, or say you want to grep some package or whatever. More importantly, fewer dependencies == lesser chances of things breaking. And because it’s sandboxed, you don’t need to worry too much about having an older library or whatever that’s needed to work. And in case you want to uninstall it, it’s a fairly clean process, whereas uninstalls via your package manager may not always be clean.