Why is Hyprland depending on KDE? Does it REALLY depend on it or is it a bug?

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I’m trying to remove KDE in favor of Hyprland, but dnf is saying that Hyprland DEPENDS on KDE. Is this supposed to happen?

(solopasha/hyprland Copr is the repo)

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KDE depends on KDE, and probably Hyprland has some of the same dependencies.

So when you remove a single component, KDE removes all of KDE.

Try removing KDE first, then installing Hyperland.

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If you install hyperland then you can use the ldd command to see what the hyperland compositor is linked against.

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hyprland from Fedora doesn’ have this dependencies.
dnf install hyprland

Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package                                    Arch       Version                                     Repository                  Size
Installing:
 hyprland                                  x86_64     0.45.2-1.fc42                               fedora                  54.2 MiB
Installing dependencies:
 aquamarine                                x86_64     0.5.0-4.fc42                                fedora                   1.2 MiB
 hyprcursor                                x86_64     0.1.10-1.fc42                               fedora                 650.4 KiB
 hyprlang                                  x86_64     0.5.3-2.fc42                                fedora                 244.5 KiB
 hyprutils                                 x86_64     0.2.6-2.fc42                                fedora                 196.1 KiB
 tomlplusplus                              x86_64     3.4.0-5.fc42                                fedora                 258.1 KiB

Transaction Summary:
 Installing:         6 packages

Total size of inbound packages is 48 MiB. Need to download 48 MiB.
After this operation, 57 MiB extra will be used (install 57 MiB, remove 0 B).
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Operation aborted by the user.

It is probably quite useless unless you install some apps in addition to hyperland itself.