From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:02:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611200702.11424.bss03@volumehost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061119222507.GB5830@sympatico.ca>
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On Sunday 19 November 2006 16:25, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades':
> 061119 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Now I'm faced with the updates that came out this week
> > and I'd like to unmerge the many parts of KDE I will never use.
> > Would it be better to remove all but the obvious keepers?
>
> You need 3 things :
>
> kdelibs
This doesn't have to be in your world file because it will be pulled in as
a dependency of applications that require those libraries.
> kdebase-startkde (which emerges 16 other pkgs first)
Yes, this is a really easy one to miss, but it provides some fairly
essential scripts. It's certainly possible to run "KDE" without it, by
writing your own scripts, but that's almost getting to the point where
your are running KDE application in your own custom desktop environment.
Of course, it's fairly arbitrary where the line is between just running KDE
applications and running "KDE". Certainly you are running "KDE" if you
are running it as defined by upstream (kdelibs, kdebase, kdegames, kdepim,
etc.; the whole #!) which is achieved in Gentoo by emerging kde-meta
(modular) or kde (monolithic). Also, I doubt anyone would say you are
running KDE if you have amaroK in your Gnome session, even if you are
using kwin as your window manager. There's a lot of middle ground though.
> So start by unmerging everything, then merge 3.5.5 as above.
No need to unmerge first. 1) edit your world file, 2) emerge -n anything
want to keep, 3) emerge -a --depclean.
--
"If there's one thing we've established over the years,
it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-19 18:52 [gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades Kevin O'Gorman
2006-11-19 19:13 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-11-19 19:47 ` Richard Fish
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2006-11-20 13:02 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [this message]
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