Re: [gentoo-user] I'm trying to emerge polkit, now it wants to bring in all of KDE

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 29 Sep 2014 18:18:06 Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	Just what is happening with ebuilds today? At work, I'm in the process
> of setting up a workstation using the KDE profile. I've gone to the KDE
> install doco on the wiki, http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE, had a read
> and it says that I'll need D-Bus, polkit, udev and udisks. I can emerge
> D-Bus with no problems then onto polkit which its wiki says needs D-Bus
> and consolekit.
> 
> 	So I attempt to install consolekit and bingo, there's the avalanche.
> Perl crap everywhere, Samba, MySQL & MariaDB, and I don't even use
> either of these DB's, a battle between LibAV and FFMPEG, what looks like
> all of KDE and oh look, there's vlc along for the ride. Even zlib
> decides it wants to come along but manages to block itself. That many
> files want to come along to the party that I can't "Shift PgUp" back up
> through my text console to see it all - a text console because I don't
> have any graphics installed yet.
> 
> 	I had a look at the consolekit ebuild and it says that it needs polkit,
> even though the wiki says that polkit depends upon consolekit - going
> round in circles here. So I looked at the polkit ebuild and it looks
> like it needs polkit-kde-agent, which to my untrained eye, probably is
> responsible for this avalanche os stuff - I think....
> 
> 	So what do I have to do to not have this avalanche of stuff, so that I
> can emerge pieces bit by bit, so that I can see what's happening. I've
> probably got some of the above slightly wrong, "lost in translation"
> going from work to home, but "the vibe" is there. It is so frustrating
> when you sit there and see a massive list of packages, a good proportion
> I don't even want, I'm looking at you MySQL/MariaDB - isn't this due to
> the Akonadi mess, scroll up the screen and it makes no sense as to why
> things are being brought in.
> 
> 	There, I've vented my spleen, any thoughts on how to control this
> "beast" would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 	Regards,
> 		Andrew

I wouldn't try to install dbus, polkit and the like manually.  These are all 
dependencies of KDE.  Emerge the KDE apps or meta packages you want and let 
portage take care of dependencies.
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Regards,
Mick

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