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 1NkLew-00027M-4n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:08:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9416AE137F for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:08:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60F1E10A2 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C9D1B4209 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:54:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.348 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.348 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.139, 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 MMTkdGJxbq8q for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F701B41BA for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NkLR4-0001pX-EM for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:54:10 +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 18:54:10 +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 18:54:10 +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 19:53:56 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <4B855723.1070908@kutulu.org> <201002241808.12043.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> 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: <201002241808.12043.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 42d626b0-ea62-4bf5-83e5-168ce0a7f803 X-Archives-Hash: 44e1839b171fa8c563f48c4281241ac3 On 02/24/2010 07:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> 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. > > > he wrote: > >> Thanks. My having research work with a few hundred thousand small files > and a couple of terrabytes of storage and backups could account for the > size. Some occasional sluggishness too. It makes no sense to index any of > this, so ditching it feels good. > > and semantic-desktop was developed to help people with such workloads. I don't understand your reply or what it answers.