Whoops, big mistake on my part. I misread the threading of the original
email and credited the idea to Alan Mc Kinnon. The credit should go to
Rich Freeman.
Sorry Rich,
Andrew
On 10/10/2015 06:56 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> 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
>
>
