From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE: unwanted dependencies
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:50:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l0v572$n7b$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5232F86F.3090909@yandex.ru>
On 13/09/2013 21:35, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
> On 13.09.2013 14:14, Alan McKinnon 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
>
> Pity.
>
>>> appear to be required now? I have set USE=-semantic-desktop but it
>>> doesn't seem to help.
While the USE flag has disappeared, you could try putting nepomuk and
akonadi into your package.provided file.
>>> 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.
>
> Some time back I heard that KDE devs were striving to make KDE more
> modular.
KDE upstream is, yes, and how this will affect semantic-desktop remains
to be seen.
>> 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.
>
> Well why wasn't it too hard before? It's not quite obvious why one's got
> to "extract" some additional functionality, as opposed to including it
> when needed. A strange approach, all in all.
The decision to remove the USE flag happened mostly because it maintain,
and was in general not well supported anyway.
There have been a number of proposals about the situation: do nothing,
do a full revert, or implement some compromise. I would hope that we
make a final decision about this before stabilising any 4.11 version.
> BTW, it seems that mysql is also a hard dependency for QT now. At least,
> the average joe can't be scorned any more for not having a "server". Hey
> to all localhost admins! :)
That shouldn't be the case. The default akonadi backend is mysql, why
could explain why it's being pulled in.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-13 13:51 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 ` Michael Palimaka [this message]
2013-09-13 14:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Yuri K. Shatroff
2013-09-13 15:57 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2013-09-14 12:39 ` Mick
2013-09-13 15:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
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