From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HBnZm-0005Pg-0z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:38:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0U7b2V4025805; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:37:02 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0U7VWut018464 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:31:32 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so235522nfb for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:31:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=i9gxHVlUXE7D/usWzaYV2MjKVMP9eVQyfOl2mb0i60Woev/lkM+21UtgY/fnApVkfw7IYAC3t91pAcA4fUckO3IlrBH/7L2WqeohWmNX0soEiP6zKYRVhxmtB+MrAKvb8U9NdjDCoHZVs1R2YBdFQ//ykdvRBMD0l+RuifjEwCA= Received: by 10.82.116.15 with SMTP id o15mr54993buc.1170142292150; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:31:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.188.5 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:31:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:31:32 +0200 From: "Vlad Dogaru" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalling KDE packages In-Reply-To: <200701300742.24485.uwix@iway.na> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200701300742.24485.uwix@iway.na> X-Archives-Salt: 664601c1-e2fe-4d45-9f8f-9d5938c32fc9 X-Archives-Hash: 71546fc694a450b53dc0beef96807e70 On 1/30/07, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 29 January 2007 22:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > > > after some suggestions from the list I finally emerged KDE to give it > > another try. Even with 256 MiB of RAM, it works quite acceptably, save > > for the startup time. > > Two things to improve startup: > > Prelink your whole system. "prelink -avmRf" should do. It will run for quite > some time but applications will start faster afterwards. You have to repeat > it after each major emerge session. > > Make sure that > Preloader=/usr/kde/3.5/bin/preloadkde > is set in /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc > > > > However, I notice it has installed all sorts of > > marginally useful and ultimately resource consuming software such as > > KWallet. > > You can as well simply switch it of: > Control Center->Security & Privacy->KDE Wallet > > > Now, I realise the risks of keeping passwords scattered all > > around (sometimes even unencrypted), but in my environment it's not > > that great a priority. > > > > I would like to know if unmerging KWallet (also the eduitainment suite > > and possibly even Kopette and Konqueror) is safe. How can I tell for > > other packages? Is emerge --unmerge enough or do other measures have > > to be taken? Also, in the case of a fresh install, how can I choose > > what KDE installs? Do I have to run emerge kde, or would kdelibs, > > kdebase, etc (along with their dependencies of course) suffice? > > You need to emerge kdelibs and kdebase. Afterwards you can emerge single > applications. Hi everyone, I did a monolithic KDE install and that is why uninstalling individual components is not easy. However, the install has served its purpose -- I only wanted to see common pitfalls in installing KDE, for when I do a complete system reinstall (possibly even changing hardware). Next time I will do a split ebuild install and carefully select what I need. Thanks for the tips, Vlad -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list