From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E32138827 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 05:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EB4421C02C; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 05:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com (mail-wi0-f171.google.com [209.85.212.171]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8710721C011 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 05:30:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wiclk2 with SMTP id lk2so16324684wic.1 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:30:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JaJhcPIwP46uY/fWdJzxtKFWchwbATdllimXgTCVye8=; b=0u07VH0+yH57A6lT/kVwPvQWYJk2906Dxfj3Pmclmo+46j/YB3VeGN0AC9b/RfVqJX PEzW3coejJQZV4DlXiTbFZN8ZR4/r+NGPlGRQvwpQDotYYB706USmqXRwb86FASOw7KV wW5V9Ex2gXm8MQjPpM7S3cFoggumqQvxJEAFIbsVTNHRX8bL2klzBTy2PdfY9mEZ1gIW 2Iz3YPbAsebDyB+hOz9NDi7E8frbvg66lmstOF0WkIEte9UnrroXoXKQudB9p8BxkZ5K UWenPeSez9Vt89txDl8fMbmfvKsbA7xxq8v9S4Hpt5GmhjrVkhjcpdsCSebymKkvBTKn uUjg== X-Received: by 10.180.81.228 with SMTP id d4mr2388973wiy.38.1443763857310; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-194-254.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.194.254]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id az6sm6513271wib.12.2015.10.01.22.30.55 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <560DFA7F.3060703@wht.com.au> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <560E166F.3020607@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 07:30:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 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 In-Reply-To: <560DFA7F.3060703@wht.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9e2d9500-c1bc-475d-a730-28b1405d5e24 X-Archives-Hash: 86f0c18bcd339ac97a3890a7bdbe2c22 On 02/10/2015 05:31, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking, with > respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. The semantic > desktop, or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of it, is one > thing that comes immediately to mind. > > Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. The > problem is that I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few > more. Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge in > kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, which I can > live with, but not the whole desktop environment? Yes. Remove all of KDE then emerge back in the apps you want, they have deps on the libs they need. Whatever they pull in is required. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com