From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NkKrp-0005h3-SZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:17:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B615E1389 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:17:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC34CE0E09 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636AA1B4127 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:00:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.35 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.35 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.141, BAYES_00=-2.599, PLING_QUERY=1.39] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hBzo6sk-txiE for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B0C1B4107 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:00:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NkKah-0004Fd-Dw for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:03 +0100 Received: from athedsl-382579.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.46.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:03 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-382579.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here! Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:59:03 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <20100224134136.GA5474@Zeerak.Fullrate> <4B855723.1070908@kutulu.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-382579.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4B855723.1070908@kutulu.org> X-Archives-Salt: 0d0283fd-d7fd-4669-86a3-156ed81b3b97 X-Archives-Hash: c690bde6cf579c56b2c5242d580bf4b7 On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>>> I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer >>>> important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia. >>>> I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. All I need from >>>> any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for multiple >>>> desktops. >>>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation >>>> toolchains or in a browser. >>>> >>>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from >>>> running out of disk space. A little research showed that an >>>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some >>>> dotfiles. It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is. I've got >>>> a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never near >>>> full before. >>> >>> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. emerge -auDN world. emerge >>> -a --depclean. That should do it. >>> >>> >> >> Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the semantic-desktop use flag set? >> > > For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn > off the services after installing them. > > Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment, > he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk space. How do you know what he needs? He probably wants KDE but without the whole "Semantic Desktop" thingy.