Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> That's what I thought until I moved to the kde profile, at which time
>> it seems to about 80% of kde-meta became part of @system.
<SNIP>
>
> I complained about KDE stuff being in the system set looooong ago.  It is
> because of USE flags that they are being pulled in.  I don't like the idea
> but if you, or a dev, disables all the USE flags that pulls in KDE, us KDE
> users are going to have things breaking left and right.  It seemed to have
> gotten worse when hal bit the dust.  At that point udev and other system
> tools picked up the slack and KDE got pulled into system.  That's my theory
> at least.

I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute
server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember.

- Mark