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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE: unwanted dependencies
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:04:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2NOfSQohTHx5pGNtGUfCCH9RTq+=w1d+5LN0AAeOzRmCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5232E582.6000907@gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
>> Hi people,
>>
>> I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1.
>> Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which
>
> No
>
>
>> appear to be required now? I have set USE=-semantic-desktop but it
>> doesn't seem to help.
>> My current KDE installation is quite happy without that stuff (which
>> also brings along tons of other crap).
>
>
> The KDE maintainers posted quite extensively about this some time back.
>
> It is too hard to try and extract semantic-desktop out of the KDE build
> whilst not breaking everything else. What you now do is allow the stuff
> to be built, and disable the function in System Settings.
>
> What this in effect means is you spend an extra 20 minutes building and
> have a few more meg of disk space consumed by code than you never run.

There was a series of threads recently in the gentoo-desktop mailing
list about someone proposing an overlay for KDE minus the
semantic/nepomuk stuff. Search the archives for "kde-lean".


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-13 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-13 10:10 [gentoo-user] KDE: unwanted dependencies Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-09-13 10:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-13 11:35   ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-09-13 13:50     ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Palimaka
2013-09-13 14:04       ` Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-09-13 15:57         ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2013-09-14 12:39           ` Mick
2013-09-13 15:04   ` Paul Hartman [this message]

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