On 10/03/2015 06:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > 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. >
Closing my original question, I followed Alan's advice, fiddled the world file, and whilst not exactly "hey presto", a few emerge's, some hand manipulation of a few files and eventually it worked. It's a bit of a jump, I'd become quite used to Dolphin and whilst pcmanfm likes to think of itself as a dolphin replacement, it's a long long way from being so. There is no autohide of the task bar, no slideshow wallpaper option, I still can't work out automounting of usb's and plenty more to keep you on your toes. So thanks for all of your suggestions. Andrew