On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/10/2015 05:31, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, >> I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking, with >> respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. The semantic >> desktop, or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of it, is one >> thing that comes immediately to mind. >> >> Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. The >> problem is that I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few >> more. Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge in >> kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, which I can >> live with, but not the whole desktop environment? > > Yes. Remove all of KDE then emerge back in the apps you want, they have > deps on the libs they need. Whatever they pull in is required.
It is easier than that. Edit your /var/lib/portage/world Remove anything kde-related you're not explicitly interested in, such as kde-meta Add anything you are explicitly interested in, such as kwooty or kwrite Add kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta Then run emerge --depclean and watch all the other stuff go away. No need to purge yourself of stuff like kdelibs that takes a long time to rebuild just to add it back. Let the dependency manager help you out for a change. :) I'm not even certain you need to explicitly add kdebase-runtime-meta - other packages might pull that in on their own but I'm not certain of that. Run a --depclean -p first and see what portage wants to get rid of before going that route. Software may-or-may not work correctly without that virtual installed and your bugs will be closed as invalid. That virtual is intended to be a somewhat-minimalist one for situations like yours, but kde applications still will tend to pull a lot of stuff in. -- Rich
