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 E1BC413838B for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:54:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D7A0E0884; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f194.google.com (mail-lb0-f194.google.com [209.85.217.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02422E084B for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f194.google.com with SMTP id z11so1784856lbi.5 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:54:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=IyHw6skNCVsfO+CahzhObp8W/pOgjwYjunTfsJSwzhs=; b=nF9Fz0Piejm6d5m8GU4oN6yVkBbBB2Nj7IV7ZXy7Q5jMO3rO5fw/zjp9JDztRKJ3K8 lrr+W3ORCp50N1Y8lr66r/IVgZeXpq5P866F8MVa97ROFiWw/dX/VeZyuQVt/rLEeuMT 8ccFM22VEe16/HsQoFr7xpMYcM+qr37U4hkjHbAWJAGYtZBVK2ATcB9ekIwsjPMWLs8/ jlWAmN2BWG7N1MbMNVuZsWI97WkTTGqITrsA2K355V5/+tn8FVos+h02I5PTpiezAuzf 2vPygcy+dF6BwdqsinkyKdXyHLF9e1nT/CQUwpId8Oak46BwB2ot6guVgVo0CO+jD8aZ fO+w== 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 X-Received: by 10.152.170.167 with SMTP id an7mr5242818lac.94.1412013272363; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.148.167 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:54:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5429944E.7060505@wht.com.au> References: <5429944E.7060505@wht.com.au> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:54:32 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm trying to emerge polkit, now it wants to bring in all of KDE From: Alexander Kapshuk To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 4e7b5384-accb-49b2-848b-75548e86c04c X-Archives-Hash: c467c53c8e2c70ce105808fde07df673 On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Just what is happening with ebuilds today? At work, I'm in the process > of setting up a workstation using the KDE profile. I've gone to the KDE > install doco on the wiki, http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE, had a read > and it says that I'll need D-Bus, polkit, udev and udisks. I can emerge > D-Bus with no problems then onto polkit which its wiki says needs D-Bus > and consolekit. > > So I attempt to install consolekit and bingo, there's the avalanche. > Perl crap everywhere, Samba, MySQL & MariaDB, and I don't even use > either of these DB's, a battle between LibAV and FFMPEG, what looks like > all of KDE and oh look, there's vlc along for the ride. Even zlib > decides it wants to come along but manages to block itself. That many > files want to come along to the party that I can't "Shift PgUp" back up > through my text console to see it all - a text console because I don't > have any graphics installed yet. > > I had a look at the consolekit ebuild and it says that it needs polkit, > even though the wiki says that polkit depends upon consolekit - going > round in circles here. So I looked at the polkit ebuild and it looks > like it needs polkit-kde-agent, which to my untrained eye, probably is > responsible for this avalanche os stuff - I think.... > > So what do I have to do to not have this avalanche of stuff, so that I > can emerge pieces bit by bit, so that I can see what's happening. I've > probably got some of the above slightly wrong, "lost in translation" > going from work to home, but "the vibe" is there. It is so frustrating > when you sit there and see a massive list of packages, a good proportion > I don't even want, I'm looking at you MySQL/MariaDB - isn't this due to > the Akonadi mess, scroll up the screen and it makes no sense as to why > things are being brought in. > > There, I've vented my spleen, any thoughts on how to control this > "beast" would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > Andrew > Can you post the output of the command lines shown below: (1). eselect profile list (2). emerge --info|grep USE (3). cat /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords (4). cat /etc/portage/package.use Is this a brand new setup you're working on, or are you just switching profiles?