Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages

[Mike Myers <fluffymikey@gmail.com>]

Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:

>A part you probably mixed a bit the difference between monolithic and split 
>packages...
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>On Saturday 25 February 2006 09:32, Mike Myers wrote:
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>>My question is;  Is there any better way to do these kinds of things
>>yet?
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>man emerge -> look for --newuse
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that.  That flag doesn't apply to the meta 
package.

If I emerge kde-meta, and then for whatever reason want to change a 
flag, like add dvd or something, I can't simply do;

emerge --newuse kde-meta

Instead, I'd have to do;

emerge --newuse  kde

which won't work because everything that the metapackage installs blocks 
the monolithic packages.

Is there any way to just install like, certain packages if you've used 
the metapackage?  Like, if I didn't want to have to wait for everything 
to be compiled?  I'd rather just be able to compile a particular package 
instead, like say if I just wanted to add alsa support to noatun or 
something.  Then I could just emerge noatun and be done with it.  
Instead, I have to recompile everything.  That probably sounds a little 
silly, but it's just an example.

Is there an easier method?
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