Re: [gentoo-user] re-installed KDE doesn't start : solved

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday, 30 July 2025 14:55:55 British Summer Time Dale wrote:

> ... I tried using sets.  All it did was create
> more work.  If I have something installed here, I use it, sometimes a
> LOT.  Therefore, I want them all to be as up to date as is available.  I
> found that even when I did have sets, the sets were in the world file
> and being updated anyway.  No real point in that when just putting for
> example, kicad-meta, in the world file and skipping the sets.  Some may
> like it.  I've read of people using and liking how it works.  For me
> tho, it was just more work.  So, some of us long term users do just fine
> without sets.  :-D 

On the other hand, I find life easier with everything in sets. I passed through 
a phase when I was reinstalling systems rather too often, and rather than sit 
here for hours doing piecemeal installations, it was much easier to start a 
set emerging and go and do something else while it got on with it.

I sometimes install something to see if I like it, and it goes into @world. If 
I decide to keep it, it comes out of world and into a suitable set; otherwise 
I uninstall it. My world file is therefore usually empty, but now you've 
prompted me to check it and I see a few things in there that I thought I'd 
uninstalled. So, thanks for the reminder!

Of course, now that my system is stable, more-or-less, I could revert to the 
usual way of working, but then I'd have some work to do. It could be done in a 
few commands; the harder part would be my having to mend my ways.  :-)

In case anyone's interested, this is my standard set of sets, in order of 
installation:

$ ls -1 /etc/portage/sets    # arranged by hand
core
base
apps
xorg
plasma
utils

@core includes linux-firmware and gentoo-sources, which several @base packages 
require to have been installed.

Many other schemes could be used, I'm sure, but mine is here for historical 
reasons; not hysterical, these days :-) 

-- 
Regards,
Peter.