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 1NkLhs-0002Sr-6S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:11:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2DC6E113C for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:11:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E24E0CBE for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:58:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so5386988fxm.26 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:58:02 -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=p0NKnwtunRSxVAKWCenggT3evZkOafHQgRQybmu4GI8=; b=P0F7JVaMMNNK+2hZeXxDXksAdD2e8TuvAvychQG2KUz8Up85qk8jv3qVzyybulC9Pc UuHkTvaqUZfPyGZXYnsPTSGx5vmTnR6iajcrsI6PLh2bnd048svvghrwamYvj00qLka2 3MxgPLpaJazyg2pKiPNwt+9gS+yhPiLwYyuVQ= 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=spDQz3sIV/salBzi/fQ6XF2Sr7Ubg3GB6A7+yo9bWR9s2qrlzuLtVqPoICsCoryQ6r zA5j0sGlZLjBgmLzWNdzhXlOLCr6mwgxwFdch6elsCqRcE7B/vnPsishtmJs1WNiERI2 K7Je2qTDbMUhy4dCM0qoqD5z7tlyaqjTPJAGE= Received: by 10.223.6.88 with SMTP id 24mr179971fay.2.1267034282687; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:58:02 -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 16sm3615609fxm.11.2010.02.24.09.58.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:58:01 -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 18:57:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32.8r4; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <201002241808.12043.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: 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: <201002241857.58511.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 90145d40-d4e0-4be3-a1a4-95b379dc8270 X-Archives-Hash: c50411f27df090f1ef806748b494890a On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/24/2010 07:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, 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. > >> > >> How do you know what he needs? He probably wants KDE but without the > >> whole "Semantic Desktop" thingy. > > > > he wrote: > >> Thanks. My having research work with a few hundred thousand small files > > > > and a couple of terrabytes of storage and backups could account for the > > size. Some occasional sluggishness too. It makes no sense to index any > > of this, so ditching it feels good. > > > > and semantic-desktop was developed to help people with such workloads. > > I don't understand your reply or what it answers. because you haven't read the thread before you wrote your email?