From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3860 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Sep 2003 13:08:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 27652 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 13:08:05 -0000 From: Caleb Tennis Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:08:02 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030928233223.4b684269.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <200309290301.28888.vapier@gentoo.org> <20030929014512.02c36d4e.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> In-Reply-To: <20030929014512.02c36d4e.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309290808.02657.caleb@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] What is happening to the desktops? X-Archives-Salt: 370ef9eb-44e6-4795-8a66-8332a782a964 X-Archives-Hash: 459f453638d38eec74f2972fd20e14d7 On Monday 29 September 2003 03:45 am, C. Brewer wrote: > I see..a lot of deps pulling in their own deps.. I was pretty much just > going off each desktop's site listings of reqs..the gnome site surely > matches up alot better than kde's..I think I'll give the gnome a > whirl..since they're pretty honest about it taking a while..Thanks Mike! I don't know how Gnome is set up, but all you need for a KDE installation is to emerge kde-base/kdebase. It will pull down arts, kdelibs, and any other system lib dependencies you don't already have. The dependencies in these builds are relatively minor. If you don't already have Qt it will pull that in as well (rather large). I don't see how this can be construed as "too many dependencies". On my P4-2200 this whole process takes about 2 hours. Before high speed broadband, it used to take me that long just to download the source code. Now, if you start installing all of the other *optional* kde packages (games, multimedia, ..) it will increase your installation time 5 fold. Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list