From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCvT1-00011N-E5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:11:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1P9AfZt019531; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:10:41 GMT Received: from gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.115]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1P972Xm027153 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:07:02 GMT Received: from [192.168.150.87] (YYYMMMCCII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [85.76.10.103]) by gw01.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A45115E6B for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:07:01 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <44001E32.4000409@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:06:58 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060206) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages References: <44001615.4030707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44001615.4030707@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: url=http://users.tkk.fi/~praty/public.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5A12382947FB646680756199" X-Archives-Salt: a8ae9139-5d95-40d6-9277-0e2e30003583 X-Archives-Hash: a71c8d52f43430d6aef2b04a68bd7413 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5A12382947FB646680756199 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mike Myers wrote: > Hello! >=20 > Currently, as you all surely already know, KDE is currently handled wit= h > metapackages or monolithic packages. The metapackages is very > convenient for a more complete install of KDE, and the monolithic > packages are better or a more modular install. However, with the > metapackages, it seems much more difficult than necessary to rebuild th= e > KDE packages. Like, say I wanted to add a user flag to support > something I just added, like xinerama support. With metapackages the > way they are now, I would have to completely uninstall every single > package and then reemerge the metapackage and it's dependencies. Just > simply reemerging the metapackage doesn't actually recompile anything. = > Also, if I wanted to add support for part of KDE, like say, alsa suppor= t > for kdemultimedia, I would have to manually unemerge each individual > package related to kdemultimedia and then reemerge the metapackage. >=20 > My question is; Is there any better way to do these kinds of things > yet? If not, are there any plans for making this kind of process any > easier for the users? I really like KDE and I'm sure there are a lot o= f > other people that do as well. I can understand the reason for going to= > metapackages, but it doesn't seem to have been as smooth of a process a= s > intended. At least not in some aspects. I am not a developer, and I > apologize if this has already been addressed. I haven't seen anything > related to this issue. The KDE howto docs seem to assume the user is > doing an initial install and it doesn't address if part of a metapackag= e > is to be reinstalled. It also suggests metapackages over monolithic > packages. I'm not really sure of the reason for such a suggestion if > making a change to the USE flags is going to be so difficult. >=20 > Maybe somebody can clear this up for me? Again, I apologize if this ha= s > already been addressed. >=20 > Thanks, > Mike >=20 emerge --deep --newuse --pretend world Regards, Petteri --------------enig5A12382947FB646680756199 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEAB40cxLzpIGCsLQRAnLMAKCSQWaKgfPNVbfk36PHWWUVo1mxtQCeJpLR T7u1J+Nyf1Hznew/ZPNdazU= =xUmG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5A12382947FB646680756199-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list