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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mike Edenfield wrote:
> Near as I can tell, your problem originates here:
>
> [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
>
> Every other KDE or Qt package in the emerge output can be traced back to
> being a dependency of khelpcenter (directly or indirectly).  Although
> technically that's not even true, since khelpcenter *doesn't* depend on
> kdelibs, not since 4.4.5, but your portage seems to think it still does.
>   And once you've pulled in kdelibs, you eventually depend on everything
> else in the universe as well (including, of course, khelpcenter!).
>
> Do you, by any chance, have a file named /etc/portage/profile/packages?
>   The only way for a package to get into your system set is if it's
> package atom is:
>
> * Listed in a file named 'packages' somewhere in your set of profile
> paths, and
> * Prefixed with a "*" within that file
>
> --Mike
>
>
>    

I don't even have the profile directory:

root@fireball / # ls -al /etc/portage/
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root  328 Feb 22 21:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 78 root root 4568 Feb 23 18:02 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 Feb 22 21:18 .keep_sys-apps_portage-0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   80 Feb 22 18:57 bin
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  464 Feb 22 17:43 package.keywords
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   80 Feb  3 02:27 package.mask
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  504 Feb 22 17:44 package.unmask
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  680 Feb 18 06:20 package.use
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   80 Feb 22 18:57 postsync.d
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   72 Dec 11 17:09 savedconfig
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   72 Feb 16 19:10 sets
root@fireball / #

I created the package.* ones and I think I did the sets one too.  I 
haven't messed with the others tho.

I wonder if the devs know about all this?  Is this something they should 
know about?  Is this unique to me?  I have KDE installed by using the 
kde-meta but surely I'm not the only one that uses it.

Dale

:-)  :-)