[Lazarus] Alternative widget sets

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> I also always seem to struggle building LCL-Qt and then have to end up
> downloading 100+ MB of packages to get it to work - something I hate
> doing after a nice clean Ubuntu install.

I can sympathise with that. Apart from anything else people "of a 
certain age" see 100Mb as an obscene amount of data- hell, I was running 
a university lab at one point with a 5Mb disc for the undergraduates and 
10Mb for researchers :-)

With Debian- and this also works for Ubuntu- I use a startup script that 
logs the list of currently-installed packages into RCS. It's primitive, 
for example it doesn't distinguish between packages which have been 
manually installed and their prerequisites, but at least it gives me a 
record of what's on any given system.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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