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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:10:27 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>    
>> Not exactly.  I'm saying I don't think X stuff should be in the system
>> set regardless of USE flags.
>>      
> There is no X stuff in @system. what you are seeing is that some
> dependencies of @system have X in their IUSE, so pull in X, but that
> doesn't make X part of @system, nor make it a requirement for your
> computer to run.
>
> You have set the X flag, by choosing a desktop profile, so why do you
> object to X programs being installed?
>
>    

I see your point but that isn't what I have been talking about.  When I 
run emerge -e system, it pulls in a bunch of X stuff including KDE.  
Yea, it is because of USE flags but that didn't used to be the case.  If 
I recall correctly, my system set and all its dependencies used to be 
147 packages.  Now it is over 400 packages which includes things that 
have nothing to do with booting or running portage.

I don't object to having X stuff installed, I just don't think it should 
be pulled into the system set.  When I do a emerge -e system, it should 
be only stuff that is related to booting, running portage and such, not 
GUI stuff.

If this continues to grow, the system set is going to catch up with the 
world set.

Dale

:-)  :-)