From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NkKmZ-000466-27 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:12:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A721CE11D7 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2636E0C09 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so3877799bwz.26 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:53:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.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:message-id; bh=Lzkdf/mVbd7qxaqfWpHd1gcANjuk6xYnm8Xdt4JW01k=; b=oCBqlbsRefJBC2LPiGgQFhZEuejAHMoExcy8d/ktGoDxa/flYo6DgqNkDHxJBHCa5H wFxcABYwf0ML8NAaHzcENvCqfE+5J3pcFWzmjKHma9FM4f6Bg2thwYqwCq6alcj1JPJ+ aYZzyAsYxiAM0vHtIlH/YrkgkYaiShjn4ORXY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=X2DA6BY63+iJVpckKd1dbArBFfGznSPs/7Fw2UdvP0mcWJ8vCBSdPbjWkcOvhNzngd j7LTySGRGq80B1E01K2f5RoSl3/vvaIzM+IL5Zix0o3ynWI0kEoZnXFPkGiC1jHzKTYC I2NOJDQlFMNGdn5SZqSSTeu0J5j6alYeM5uLs= Received: by 10.103.4.9 with SMTP id g9mr35837mui.57.1267030380690; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:53:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j10sm9579375muh.28.2010.02.24.08.52.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:52:59 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here! Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:52:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32.8r4; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <20100224134136.GA5474@Zeerak.Fullrate> <4B855723.1070908@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <4B855723.1070908@kutulu.org> 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: 7bit Message-Id: <201002241752.56408.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e1930156-49e9-47bf-ae6e-66af2cecd2bd X-Archives-Hash: ad38675d45aa2c0d7d8153dbc6b99462 On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >>> I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer > >>> important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia. > >>> I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. All I need > >>> from any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for > >>> multiple desktops. > >>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation > >>> toolchains or in a browser. > >>> > >>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from > >>> running out of disk space. A little research showed that an > >>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some > >>> dotfiles. It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is. I've > >>> got a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never > >>> near full before. > >> > >> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. emerge -auDN world. emerge > >> -a --depclean. That should do it. > > > > Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the > > semantic-desktop use flag set? > > For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn > off the services after installing them. > > Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment, > he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk > space. > > --Mike the thing is - xfce does not necessarily use less ram. And semantic desktop can help him to easily find data points over a multitude of documents..,..