Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>]

Did you check out the Gentoo docs on kde split ebuilds?  It has a lot of good 
info.  I started to emerge with the kde and then decided to go with the meta 
so per the instructions I had to remove some stuff - it shows up as blocked.  

On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:31, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > kde-base/kde is a meta package, it pulls in all the monolithic KDE
> > builds. If you are concerned about installation compile times, you should
> > not be trying to build the whole of KDE. Do you really need all of
> > kdegames, kdeedu and kdetoys to get your system running? Stick with
> > kde-base/kdebase or kde-base/kdebase-meta, you can cancel your current
> > emerge and merge one of these instead, then add the rest of what you want
> > once the system is running.
>
> I'm confused here. (even more..)
>
> Before starting the compile:
> I ran a comparision of `emerge -v -p kde' and
> emerge -v -p kde-meta
>
> The last showed a much larger pile of dependancies than the former.
> So I ran the former.
>
> I've now canceled as suggested and running `emerge  kde-base/kdebase'
>
> It only showed the main kde-3.4X as dependancy.  But with all the
> screwups I've managed to get these kde packages installed:
> (And don't need several of them)
>
> kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4.1-r1 *
> kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 *
> kde-base/kdebase-pam-6 *
> kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 *
> kde-base/arts-3.4.1-r2 *
> kde-base/kdebase-3.4.1-r1 *
> kde-base/kdeartwork-3.4.1 *
> kde-base/kdepim-3.4.1-r2 *
> kde-base/kdegames-3.4.1 *
> kde-base/kdeutils-3.4.1 *
> kde-base/kdenetwork-3.4.1-r1 *
> kde-base/kdeedu-3.4.1-r1 *

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Brett I. Holcomb
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