Did you check out the Gentoo docs on kde split ebuilds? It has a lot of good info. I started to emerge with the kde and then decided to go with the meta so per the instructions I had to remove some stuff - it shows up as blocked.
On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:31, Harry Putnam wrote: > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > kde-base/kde is a meta package, it pulls in all the monolithic KDE > > builds. If you are concerned about installation compile times, you should > > not be trying to build the whole of KDE. Do you really need all of > > kdegames, kdeedu and kdetoys to get your system running? Stick with > > kde-base/kdebase or kde-base/kdebase-meta, you can cancel your current > > emerge and merge one of these instead, then add the rest of what you want > > once the system is running. > > I'm confused here. (even more..) > > Before starting the compile: > I ran a comparision of `emerge -v -p kde' and > emerge -v -p kde-meta > > The last showed a much larger pile of dependancies than the former. > So I ran the former. > > I've now canceled as suggested and running `emerge kde-base/kdebase' > > It only showed the main kde-3.4X as dependancy. But with all the > screwups I've managed to get these kde packages installed: > (And don't need several of them) > > kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4.1-r1 * > kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 * > kde-base/kdebase-pam-6 * > kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 * > kde-base/arts-3.4.1-r2 * > kde-base/kdebase-3.4.1-r1 * > kde-base/kdeartwork-3.4.1 * > kde-base/kdepim-3.4.1-r2 * > kde-base/kdegames-3.4.1 * > kde-base/kdeutils-3.4.1 * > kde-base/kdenetwork-3.4.1-r1 * > kde-base/kdeedu-3.4.1-r1 * -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
