  A ten-dimensional supersymmetric $E_8$ gauge theory is compactified over
six-dimensional coset spaces, establishing further our earlier conjecture that
the resulting four dimensional theory is a softly broken supersymmetric gauge
theory in the case that the used coset space is non-symmetric. The specific
non-symmetric six-dimensional spaces examined in the present study are
$Sp(4)/(SU(2) \times U(1))_{non-max.}$ and $ SU(3)/U(1) \times U(1)$.
