Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

["Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@southernstarsolutions.com>]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> Sebastian Beßler wrote:
>> Am 24.02.2011 13:32, schrieb Dale:
>>
>>> My world file is fine. I went through it a while back and it is fairly
>>> small. It's the system set that is larger than normal.
>>
>> Your system set has 50 entries, that seems to be absolutly normal.
>>
>> The high count of entries in emerge -e @system comes from USE-flags 
>> like kde (what we have shown in the other post) and probably one or 
>> more other USE-flags.
>>
>> To lower the number in emerge -e @system you have to look at your 
>> flags, one by one if nothing else helps. Or you could just ignore it, 
>> because all that is pulled in are dependencies of some sort and not in 
>> your @system.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Sebastian Beßler
>>
>>
>
> And since I use KDE, it's not like I can disable the USE flag either.  I 
> may be able to disable or remove some others that are not needed or 
> outdated but still, kde would be there.
>
> I just wonder if the devs have noticed how much this has grown when 
> packages with X flags are included in the system set?.  Would Gnome do 
> the same?  What about other GUI's?
>
> If I do this:
>
> USE="-*" emerge -pv system
>
> I get this:
>
> Total: 50 packages (50 reinstalls)
>
> What a difference USE flags makes huh?
>
> Dale
>
>:-)  :-)

I use fluxbox and sometimes wmaker. Probably a lot of people are put 
off by the default configs, but both offer extremely powerful and 
versatile customization tools. Add your fave terminal emulator (I 
recommend terminator for it's killer feature set) and conky for system 
monitoring, midnight commander or worker for file management, and you 
have a pretty complete desktop without need of all the bloaty k or g 
stuff.  It's a *lot* faster that way, too.

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