From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFsR3-00067J-84 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:43:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57945E09C0; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.230]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC71E098E for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so834461nze.1 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:42:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=wSUSSUpuye4RoK2zsIoz08FCt4ZOsGJHbdDaq02kHzI=; b=Mt5y7T64GSVhmLo2NklEfHJF/Qg8nUsHOQOnymv786Yn+6Ccd0FlHT8CKe3H8NG84J6qHvxOkLTzrbNB6y2eUZGoCHAcqMpDv7q187etCxlnN5TgCarC7gepTsLWC5Z4EzMG4GH7DfEwWaVPAfufeMOnvn2+FF7DYuziy6a/q7I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=fG2qaISA+de4t8KKrLh5qIN99hmukKRjTQFNY/T18yBavwWJVOH+THc2eLm1d7XU4rfWLKyaMwFgOlvcz/yOU1TO2hK08WXzOTDiYZiyfBQj90uoNcAda9mErl1rmpsTDt5A2MCOyF/uR9cmS2JoRHQIINkkuRY3yJcScfG/5tc= Received: by 10.143.164.19 with SMTP id r19mr2054369wfo.179.1200667346095; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:42:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.200.112? ( [196.211.71.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m10sm5254104rnd.15.2008.01.18.06.42.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:42:25 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:36:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200801171806.28565.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200801180041.12159.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> In-Reply-To: <200801180041.12159.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801181636.29275.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e52bec54-073a-450e-bc1d-ce9ffdc89c3c X-Archives-Hash: ce1da4b20e49691ec3bed7697ea18c7b On Friday 18 January 2008, Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:06:28 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Roll on KDE4 when this monolithic nonsense will go away and there > > will only be -meta ebuilds. > > Actually it was decided to keep monolithics in KDE 4.0.0. Splits are > now the default which means they are listed first in any-of > dependency blocks such as e.g. || ( kde-base/kompare:kde-4 > kde-base/kdesdk:kde-4 ) in KDE 4. But monos are still around. There > is a list of the monos in the url I posted in another mail to this > thread. Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. Obviously my most current info is=20 out of date. But why was that decision taken? I understand keeping it for kde-3.5.x=20 users, but kde-4 is essentially an entirely different product, and=20 the -meta ebuilds do everything the monolithic ones ever did. The=20 configure steps do add time though, but other than that everything=20 seems to work the same =2D-=20 Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list