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 1NkKkO-0003cp-SE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:10:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DE1CE1167 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.informasoftware.com (mail.informasoftware.com [66.193.169.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1ACE0CEC for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.74] ([192.168.100.74] RDNS failed) by mail.informasoftware.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:43:15 -0500 Message-ID: <4B855723.1070908@kutulu.org> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:43:15 -0500 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here! References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <20100224134136.GA5474@Zeerak.Fullrate> In-Reply-To: <20100224134136.GA5474@Zeerak.Fullrate> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Feb 2010 16:43:15.0414 (UTC) FILETIME=[75FFBF60:01CAB570] X-Archives-Salt: 195a65d7-2ed1-4456-8e80-57c42c5860a7 X-Archives-Hash: 3b03110a451c55f157b8d33d06bd62ad 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