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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:28:12 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>    
>> What is KDE and qt doing in there?  Did I add these somehow?  I'm using
>> the KDE profile is that where it came from.  I just think this is sort
>> of weird.
>>      
> The KDE profile sets the kde USE flag - see
> $PORTDIR/profiles/targets/desktop/kde/make.defaults.
>
> However, emerge -p system doesn't pull in any KDE packages here, although
> it does include qt, so this must be covered by another of your USE flags,
> which requires something that in turn requires KDE. Run it again with
> --tree to see what's really going on.
>
>
>    

This is snippets since this is a long list.  I can't believe system has 
gotten this big.  It's almost half the packages on my system.  o_O

[nomerge       ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.7
[nomerge       ]  virtual/mysql-5.1
[ebuild   R    ]   dev-db/mysql-5.1.51
[nomerge       ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.7.1-r1
[nomerge       ]  media-sound/phonon-4.4.4
[nomerge       ]   media-sound/phonon-vlc-9999
[nomerge       ]    media-video/vlc-1.1.7
[nomerge       ]     kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1
[nomerge       ]      app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.17
[nomerge       ]       net-nds/openldap-2.4.24
[nomerge       ]        dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-r1
[nomerge       ]         virtual/jdk-1.6.0
[ebuild   R    ]          dev-java/icedtea6-bin-1.9.7

[ebuild   R    ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.4-r2
[ebuild   R    ]  sys-libs/glibc-2.11.2-r3
[nomerge       ] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.6.0
[nomerge       ]  kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1
[ebuild   R   ~]   kde-base/nepomuk-4.6.0
[ebuild   R   ~]   kde-misc/polkit-kde-kcmodules-0.98_pre20101127
[ebuild   R   ~]   kde-base/khelpcenter-4.6.0
[ebuild   R   ~]   sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent-0.99.0
[ebuild   R   ~]    kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1
[ebuild   R    ]     sys-fs/udisks-1.0.1-r1
[ebuild   R    ]      dev-libs/libatasmart-0.17
[ebuild   R    ]      sys-block/parted-2.3
[ebuild   R   ~]     sys-power/upower-0.9.8

[nomerge       ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1
[nomerge       ]  app-misc/strigi-0.7.1
[nomerge       ]   virtual/fam-0
[ebuild   R    ]    app-admin/gamin-0.1.10

[ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/file-5.04
[nomerge       ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1
[nomerge       ]  media-libs/jasper-1.900.1-r3
[nomerge       ]   media-libs/freeglut-2.6.0
[nomerge       ]    virtual/opengl-7.0
[ebuild   R    ]     media-libs/mesa-7.9.1

[nomerge       ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1
[ebuild   R    ]  dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26
[ebuild   R    ]   dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r1
[ebuild   R   ~]  x11-libs/qt-declarative-4.7.1-r2
[ebuild   R   ~]   x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.7.1
[ebuild   R   ~]   x11-libs/qt-svg-4.7.1-r1
[ebuild   R   ~]   x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.7.1
[ebuild   R   ~]    x11-libs/qt-gui-4.7.1-r1

[nomerge       ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1
[nomerge       ]  x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.0.2_p20100618
[ebuild   R    ]   x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.80
[ebuild   R    ]    dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.8


That is some of them at least.  If needed, I can post the whole list but 
it is lengthy.  I always thought system was supposed to be small and 
just what is needed to boot and portage to work.  I had no idea this 
included KDE, qt and other stuff that is not needed.

I did look in the profile.  All I saw was the USE flag as well but 
thought maybe I was missing something else it enabled.  It took me a 
while to find it under default tho.  I was looking under amd64 which is 
basically nothing.  That was confusing at first too.  Anyway.  This is 
my USE info according to emerge --info:

USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aac acpi alsa amd64 aml auto-hinter automount 
avahi berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cdr chroot cleartype cli clucene 
consolekit corefonts cracklib cups curl cxx dbus dri dvd dvdr emboss 
encode escreen esd exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif 
gimp gkrellm gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk hbci hddtemp iconv ipv6 java 
javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde lcms ldap libnotify libwww 
logrotate loop-aes mad mdnsresponder-compat melt mikmod mmx mng modules 
mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly 
nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opengl openmp pam pango parport pcre pdf perl 
png policykit ppds ppp pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 readline sasl sdl 
seamonkey semantic-desktop session sift smp spell sse sse2 ssl 
startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype 
type1 udev unicode usb vcd vorbis webkit wma wmf x264 xcb xml xorg xv 
xvid yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp 
atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 
fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx 
via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare 
dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter 
mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" 
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon 
authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default 
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi 
cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter 
file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime 
mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir 
usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df 
interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" 
GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt 
gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore 
rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" 
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz 
cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US 
en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" 
VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 
ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq 
steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"

The total packages it wants to build for system is 401.  Is this 
normal?  I only have about 900 in all.  Not to long ago, system was only 
about 200 or so.

Dale

:-)  :-)