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Re:Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternati... by jcelerier on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:34AM (#26366287)
> Id say its fair game if building hello world links those gstreamer and openssl.

why ? it entirely depends on how your linux distro chose to build Qt, not on Qt itself.

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Re:Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternati... by EvilEy3 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @07:33AM (#26366965)
Because application can't run without those libraries. It's like comparing Java application without taking JVM into account.
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Re:Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternati... by jcelerier on Saturday March 06, 2021 @08:06AM (#26367078)
> It's like comparing Java application without taking JVM into account.

no, it's not. The "equivalent" of the JVM would be the libQt5{Core,Gui,Widgets...}.so ; but here we are talking about the operating-system-provided libraries, so it is like comparing with a Java application, with the JVM, and also for instance all the MS Windows system libraries, or all the macOS frameworks like CoreFoundation, etc etc.

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Re:Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternati... by makapuf on Saturday March 06, 2021 @03:18PM (#26370207)
OK, so in this context the app is X MB. If all distros link those libs with libre cote and ui, for all intents and purposes, it takes X MB. If some dont, then lets discuss it (but if you can link to gstreamer and openssl to build a hello world, the issue is not entirely on the distro shoulders)
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