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[217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id kx2sm16512118wjb.6.2014.09.29.11.01.34 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:01:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm trying to emerge polkit, now it wants to bring in all of KDE Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:01:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.14.14-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <5429944E.7060505@wht.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5429944E.7060505@wht.com.au> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3079970.U2UJz6iO7R"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201409291901.26024.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 79022dab-7e0c-413e-9a29-aa79609a4e1f X-Archives-Hash: 65f1089906315d55be85fff1d7fdfd1b --nextPart3079970.U2UJz6iO7R Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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.... >=20 > 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. >=20 > There, I've vented my spleen, any thoughts on how to control this > "beast" would be greatly appreciated. >=20 > Regards, > Andrew I wouldn't try to install dbus, polkit and the like manually. These are al= l=20 dependencies of KDE. Emerge the KDE apps or meta packages you want and let= =20 portage take care of dependencies. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3079970.U2UJz6iO7R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJUKZ51AAoJELAdA+zwE4YeJTIH/iPqTlIc/DJAtUSzClUEVeJc l4iIQAjMpa773EbGBnub66ijQq7DnWaX+21Nl+IIKsQVsV3TFjgL5FntbNFq/oH1 RV2y1bziOmjgnMVzaYzlFiJCh4MQXRtL/5zrMrCEMT/yUNemJHrQ+tizO0IE/+y5 z9ZY2bVVHKMwoYITl8TuDgoNPdFGoIiW1AfLdPYtFm/qDHuVsE+FCfDGRLc59wqv iDWpEacFCEdP/r/f4oLTEKq8cT3AmKlFplBImn60BMXuaTv+vnW1qBN7XgTv2pE7 uKezCMvbWdFQzTQCEYQw4Jm4A4lYLZsEucmqBEE87+KKwyv9rGuBSbWnzDSq49k= =wTN1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3079970.U2UJz6iO7R--