I run F31 Mate. When I run dnf upgrade, I often get dozens of kf5 entries (23 today, by my count) -- presumably because I install and sometimes use K3B or Konqueror; I don't think I ever launch any other KDE app, at least not knowingly.
In particular, I used to use Konqueror mainly for reading man pages, because it was the only way I knew to get a display I could read; but now it doesn't do man pages at all, alas!
Also, formerly neither K3B nor Brasero always burned media I wanted; but one or the other always did.
I'm wondering a couple things. Does all that kf5 stuff, sitting there almost (?) unused, amount to a security hazard? Does it slow anything down perceptibly? (I inveterately use too many browsers with too many tabs.)
Might I ought to bite the bullet, removing K3B and Konqueror?
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:24:28 -0000 (UTC) Beartooth wrote:
Might I ought to bite the bullet, removing K3B and Konqueror?
I just installed a system to test some things, and even though I did not (knowingly) include any KDE stuff, I got thousands of these packages (seemed like that many anyway :-).
You could try doing a "dnf erase" on some of the kf5 rpms and see the huge list of dependencies they would take with them (and answer "no" when it asks if that is OK, don't use the -y option for sure).
On 4/12/20 10:24 AM, Beartooth wrote:
I'm wondering a couple things. Does all that kf5 stuff, sitting there almost (?) unused, amount to a security hazard? Does it slow anything down perceptibly? (I inveterately use too many browsers with too many tabs.)
No and no. If you're not using it, it's not doing anything other than taking up a little bit of hard drive space.
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