On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Harry Putnam wrote:
> First off, this is an install from scratch.
>
> While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it
> later.  

^^ huh?

> And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts of kde do what. 
> I'm not compiling kde-meta either, but I've got bit more than once
> with missing stuff I later needed.

When did I say meta...

> I just don't find it all that embracing flopping around in the many many
> ways one can screw up with USE var,  KEYWORDS and the dozens of
> combinations of there use..

I'm not sure quite how you're messing with your USE flags...

> Especially when I want and need to be doing something else.

sleep?

> I appreciate that gentoo is a source distro and even some of the
> advantages of that, but I agree with the few other posters here that
> say kde is a first rate candidate for a binary distribution.

Good luck if you don't want arts or gstreamer too.. I heard that's included, 
which pulls in gtk libs and goodies, and then at the end of the day your 
binary distro has pulled in more -devel/other depend packages because it 
can't realistically decide what the user needs on their system.  I've heard 
the "Oh it takes time" argument before, but personally I'd rather take the 
time and have the features I want, then find out "Oh this deb/rpm/whatever 
doesn't have feature [a]" and spend loads more time trying to find a package 
that days, or compile my own (which brings us back to point A...).  

Chris White