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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:03:06 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>    
>> I just wonder if the devs have noticed how much this has grown when
>> packages with X flags are included in the system set?.  Would Gnome do
>> the same?  What about other GUI's?
>>      
> What does it matter? They are only dependencies of @system, but they will
> also be dependencies of @world, because you have emerged kde-meta, so
> either way they would be on your system.
>
> There is nothing wrong with your system, it is doing exactly what you
> told it to with your USE flags, and the kde flag is not the culprit
> anyway as emerge -ep @system doesn't bring in any KDE stuff here.
>
>    

I was always under the impression that @system was supposed to be a 
limited set of packages to build, including dependencies.  For me, if I 
have a issue, I usually start with emerge -e system to see if it helps.  
Since there is some KDE stuff in there, that makes it build packages 
that I most likely don't need to be rebuilt.  To me, KDE is not a system 
package.

It is doing what it is told but it is also doing things that it didn't 
use to do even when told the same as it is being told now.  It wasn't to 
long ago that system was about 150 packages and didn't take that long to 
recompile.  Now it is over 400.  If this continues, the difference 
between system and world is going to be small.

It may not be broke but it seems the system set is growing pretty quick.

Dale

:-)  :-)