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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I0N8N-0006O0-2V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:43:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5IJfceV003336; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:41:38 GMT Received: from desiato.localdomain (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5IJaJ2o029565 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:36:21 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CE612C38D for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:36:11 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:36:05 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages Message-ID: <20070618203605.4872ec50@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200706181717.29999.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> References: <2771855.Lc05nKGiQP@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <200706160608.57096.bss03@volumehost.net> <20070618154534.5bb25a3b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <200706181717.29999.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2cvs17 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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=Sig_3MP5UY6QP26wv6QBCabKRID; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 548a1adb-9420-4618-ae8a-d6efbbf35f66 X-Archives-Hash: 5b87e6a4eef7237440d096be673153b6 --Sig_3MP5UY6QP26wv6QBCabKRID Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Alan McKinnon, > 'emerge *-meta' is fine if one wants everything, or 'emerge kopete > kmail konqueror' if you just want a few bits like me, but there's this > large no-man's land in the middle where it is just unweildy. No fault > of Gentoo, it's all KDEs fault for having 300+ distinct apps/code=20 > bodies :-) But you don't need all of them in world, many are only installed as dependencies of other packages. I have most of KDE installed here, yet only 67 kde-base packages in world. You could reduce that sill further by using more than the two meta packages I currently have.=20 --=20 Neil Bothwick Q: Why do PCs - even modern ones - have reset buttons on the front? A: Because they come with Microsoft operating systems. --Sig_3MP5UY6QP26wv6QBCabKRID Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGdt6rum4al0N1GQMRAlbCAJ4kHY3JMsRh91T9KTlrY5nsN5Jp0QCfSzIp rkzmdIk2BS7bitIcGRKiJuM= =fpLu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_3MP5UY6QP26wv6QBCabKRID-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list