Because of some secondary dependencies that are probably needed. And yes, someone has already made the comment about it being bloated. However, I disagree as Gnome is fully accessible to the blind and is compatible with the dozen or so known screen readers for the blind. KDE, However, is not. It might be slimmer, but that comes with a cost.
-Eric
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> On Jul 18, 2021, at 4:33 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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> You know I'm doing Linux From Scratch and I'm looking into Beyond
> Linux from Scratch. Well I look at KDE and I look at Gnome. Gnome has
> about twice the pAckages to compile. Why is that?
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