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 1Ekzzs-00020D-7I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:22:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBA8LTG0008484; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:21:29 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBA8HVxK031414 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:17:32 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.106] (c-67-181-55-15.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[67.181.55.15]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005121008173101300c4rqge>; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:17:31 +0000 From: Chris White Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde? Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:17:31 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Harry Putnam References: <200512100802.30256.chriswhite@gentoo.org> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1495133.BkWYA9ZlTP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512101717.35850.chriswhite@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: ffbe18a8-e8e6-4de6-b156-015b33e33924 X-Archives-Hash: c3abb950cd4cb4640eb6649a58b0d523 --nextPart1495133.BkWYA9ZlTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. =20 ^^ huh? > And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts of kde do what.=20 > 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= ,=20 which pulls in gtk libs and goodies, and then at the end of the day your=20 binary distro has pulled in more -devel/other depend packages because it=20 can't realistically decide what the user needs on their system. I've heard= =20 the "Oh it takes time" argument before, but personally I'd rather take the= =20 time and have the features I want, then find out "Oh this deb/rpm/whatever= =20 doesn't have feature [a]" and spend loads more time trying to find a packag= e=20 that days, or compile my own (which brings us back to point A...). =20 Chris White --nextPart1495133.BkWYA9ZlTP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDmo8fFdQwWVoAgN4RAgBxAKCpLxN7uDGu65EllxL7LtauLNXVLgCgmSDW lLiI2lk2OqXqXCwfLK1V5o8= =F3/Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1495133.BkWYA9ZlTP-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list