The dependencies: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/g...
If you're using Gnome, you probably have those already so it's no big deal. The same goes for Konsole in KDE: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/k...
If not, pulling in a few hundred MB of dependencies for a terminal emulator seems distasteful. st is much more self-contained: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
That's why st is usually compared to xterm; they're small, basic and desktop-agnostic.
The dependencies: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/g...
If you're using Gnome, you probably have those already so it's no big deal. The same goes for Konsole in KDE: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/k...
If not, pulling in a few hundred MB of dependencies for a terminal emulator seems distasteful. st is much more self-contained: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
That's why st is usually compared to xterm; they're small, basic and desktop-agnostic.