On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:08:02 -0500 Caleb Tennis wrote: > 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 I suppose optional is open to interpretation..but I was looking here- http://www.kde.org/download/ and what shows there is what the kde people consider a full installation, and the only prerequisite is qt, of course. Mike has already pointed out a couple of problems that could be improved,and in true vanilla fashion `emerge kde` should pull no more then whats listed at their site. I applaud your good fortune in having a fast cpu and connection, whereas my k6-2 500 and 56k connection find this mildly annoying. I think the fast cpu/fast connection has maybe jaded some devs because while it costs "relatively minor" time at their end, it increases 5x at the low end. I would be happy to prvide a USE free list of packages to be emerged if that would help:) This rant was merely aimed at the number of deps Gentoo calls for vs. the number the vanilla source calls for. -- Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred.