On Monday, 24 June 2019 21:40:07 BST Mick wrote: > According to the current wiki page these days the kde-meta has been > replaced with plasma-meta. This is how I have configured plasma-meta: > > Installed versions: 5.15.5(5)(12:58:00 14/06/19)(bluetooth browser- > integration crypt desktop-portal display-manager elogind handbook legacy- > systray pam pm-utils sddm wallpapers -consolekit -discover -grub -gtk - > networkmanager -plymouth -pulseaudio -sdk -systemd) > > BUT ... I am thinking of uninstalling it, deplclean-ing my world and > installing kde-plasma/plasma-desktop which is the slim version, while > keeping some select kde-meta packages I need/want.
I made quite a determined attempt to do that on this system. I would uninstall a meta package, then see what packages would be removed by emerge -c, and emerge --noreplace any that I wanted to keep. Sounds simple, eh? Not so. I soon found myself mired in loops and contradictory dependencies which I couldn't escape. I ended up reinstalling from scratch, avoiding as many meta-packages as I could. I tried to build on kde-plasma/plasma-desktop, but it was simply too basic. I spent a long time trying to find packages to restore what I was used to in kde-plasma, but I concluded that it would need the knowledge of a kde packager. So I do still have five meta-packages. Ho hum. I don't want to warn you off altogether, but at least be ready for some tricky work. Lots of it! -- Regards, Peter.
