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 1El8FC-00049I-UG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:10:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBAH6TPd003982; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:06:29 GMT Received: from imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.68]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBAGnDZ5012680 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:49:14 GMT Received: from ibm62aec.bellsouth.net ([70.153.0.83]) by imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20051210164912.FLJD26898.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm62aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:49:12 -0500 Received: from gandalf ([70.153.0.83]) by ibm62aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20051210164912.DJQV17681.ibm62aec.bellsouth.net@gandalf> for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:49:12 -0500 From: "Brett I. Holcomb" Organization: Holcomb & Associates To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde? Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:49:11 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20051210154914.09c50185@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512101149.11364.brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> X-Archives-Salt: b953ec52-66f2-448c-a63f-d05ba68d162a X-Archives-Hash: 29468f6a4a312382504dac852e38ac2c 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 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 * -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list