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 1Psart-0002Pz-R6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:04:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7CC51C03B for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f51.google.com (mail-gw0-f51.google.com [74.125.83.51]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA4E1C02F for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb15 with SMTP id 15so399176gwb.10 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:19:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=nW0O/AelMdB38gV7pZ0HaqlGYV8lc2IGYk65qKVwtuQ=; b=g9valnftsiHHGL8Hqioe2yCJI3WVLSf60y4suoFZFMLwJJNAeojadRrGQg+MCvt1ZI pG6AadlTi9lch0wxXBsn+ib9RxDDLxfe1ct+wFfOE0+JdnjHXW0DNimzHD9oTvDfHqJJ T3rNgNtwWbGByA2i/S9dZbRRtxXvsomM3XaOU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZRif4lWKaAmG89qdTipBSsPrJm+Xu4C/4vcTGFlY0upNCvg7XWgwJ1KbA/54RF+u4h KtXPjlmytoL7j0CQ4c6tuF25S0NrUvWGzVw4vgFcWwkmGRyOzjQAGN+QDMlUqrcH6PXv zBB95ln3i6YSzJwwtzSO+i3UQmwg0OBXBYZ0g= Received: by 10.90.239.10 with SMTP id m10mr1864054agh.111.1298549995199; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:19:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-174.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c7sm3317416ana.37.2011.02.24.04.19.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:19:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D664CE8.2050605@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:19:52 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110217 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 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] Why is KDE part of the system set? References: <4D648CDC.1040900@gmail.com> <20110223092905.29f9269b@digimed.co.uk> <4D64F3EF.5020501@gmail.com> <20110223122538.428a246b@digimed.co.uk> <4D652E4C.6010206@gmail.com> <4D658FAA.7010504@kutulu.org> <4D65A375.5050502@gmail.com> <4D65AAC2.5070409@wonkology.org> <4D6643AC.6070109@darkmetatron.de> In-Reply-To: <4D6643AC.6070109@darkmetatron.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ce2bc47c176c13f9971071e14fddab8c Sebastian Be=DFler wrote: > > One can make an easy test to see how that works: > > USE=3D"-kde" emerge -e @system -vp > Total: 181 packages > > emerge -e @system -v > Total: 436 packages, > > The kde-useflag pulls in a waste of packages > > In my system-set are 50 packages: > > emerge @system -vp > Total: 50 packages > > Greetings > > Sebastian Be=DFler > > This is what I got with that: Total: 294 packages (294 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB With the kde USE flag: Total: 401 packages (401 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB That's a big difference. This is my system and world info: Packages installed: 929 Packages in world: 94 Packages in system: 50 Required packages: 929 Dale :-) :-)