On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankev...@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed xfce4-meta and was a little surprised to see it did not > come with thunar. When I tried to install it, portage became upset. > > Question: is it normal that I would have to ~amd64 a bunch of packages > and deal with slot conflicts and static-libs to install a file > manager? FYI I am running a "stable" (non-~AMD64) system. > > Thank you, > > Chris > <SNIP>
Hi Chris, I think you got your problem solved if my quick scan of this thread is correct. However one comment I didn't see come up was to point out that it can make a huge difference in terms of use flag choices depending on which system profile you choose to orient your system around. In the case of my wife's XFCE machine I found that using the plain profile worked pretty well, but when I added KDE to it (I use KDE when sitting on that machine) I needed to add a lot of use flags and keyword a number of files. In the case of my own systems I choose the KDE profile which ends up with most everything use flag oriented pretty optimized for KDE. (No surprise.) Anyway, as you're new to Gentoo and looking for more in-depth answers, I wanted to just make sure you at least considered the system profile chosen and it's effect on what you have to do to emerge packages. Cheers, Mark k2 ~ # eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/amd64/10.0 * [2] default/linux/amd64/10.0/selinux [3] default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop [4] default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome [5] default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde [6] default/linux/amd64/10.0/developer [7] default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib [8] default/linux/amd64/10.0/server [9] hardened/linux/amd64 [10] hardened/linux/amd64/selinux [11] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib [12] hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib/selinux k2 ~ #
