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Re: Qt-Only Version?
by Thomas Zander on Tuesday 09/Jan/2007, @02:54

Not depending on the kdelibs would not actually mean less code (in total) or a lower functionality requirement.
So its like saying you want to eat a full meal, but don't want to gain any weight. So lets only eat crackers!.
Well, in both cases all you are doing is move the requirement to another place and you'll just be adding lots of code in KOffice itself. Just like you'll eat a whole lot of crackers to be able to sustenance you.

As another poster in this thread said; sharing the libraries with many other applications will in the end save you space since not every application will load a _different_ set of libraries even though they all need a large total amount of libraries.
So you can see it like you are carpooling libraries. You save in fuel money by sharing the car with your neighbor. That doesn't change the fact that you both need to travel a long distance, it just means it has less of an impact.

Carpooling is the real solution; buying a smaller car of your own doesn't actually help much.

Hope that explains this rather complex mental model a bit better :)

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