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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] big packages
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 01:25:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204060125.21132.danarmak@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CAEC283.4010809@optushome.com.au>

On Saturday 06 April 2002 12:40, michael wrote:
> i would like to see some packages (namely the kde ones) seperated into
> smaller ones so that you could install just kghostview or just kmail or
> some other major program (with the right kde dependencies) without say
> having to install a whole package like kdegraphics which contains a
> bunch of stuff i dont need.
> maybe there are some options i just need to change to do this. enlighten
> me.
>
The other part of the answer: if you want to do it now, do this for package 
foo;
* ebuild foo-x.y.ebuild unpack
* edit /var/tmp/portage/foo-x.y/work/foo-x.y/subdirs and remove what you don't 
like
* ebuild foo-x.y.ebuild compile install qmerge

-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-06 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-06  9:40 [gentoo-dev] big packages michael
2002-04-05 22:18 ` Dan Armak
2002-04-05 22:25 ` Dan Armak [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-07 15:06 michael
2002-04-10  1:26 michael

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