> >> > -* are masked for all archs. This is experimental beyond ~*. > >> > Furthermore, you should at least specify your particular arch, like > >> > x86, amd64, ppc. Many applications don't even use a -* arch so you > >> > will be missing a whole bunch of stuff. > >> > > >> > A better way to handle this is to use the package.keywords file and > >> > add to it any experimental ebuilds you want. > >> > > >> > man emerge will give you more information. > >> > >> I think he meant -* in USE and then adding some flags: for ex. USE="-* > >> kde" > > > > That's exactly what I meant. Sorry about that. > > > > OOPS! My bad. The only negative that I can see is that there are dozens of > valid use flags, many of which _could_ affect functionality. I still say, > save your time, use a live cd or precompiled binaries while evaluating. > > OTOH, you can get the best of both worlds by using select KDE applications > in XFCE. My personal combination is Enlightenment with Rox handling the > panel and desktop. Then I use Kopete (IM client), Kgpg (gnupg frontend) > that sit in a systray. Then khelpcenter which gives a nice view of all man > and info pages. kinfocenter (sysinfo), Cervisia for cvs, and kdesu (su > client). Those I use every day. However, I still keep the entire KDE > system compiled. This is because I had kde on before everything else. I'm > still not a big fan of the split ebuilds, and usually compile the whole > suite when updates come out. > > KDE _is_ big though, and because of the way it stores (or Gentoo stores) > .desktop and icon files, sort of breaks freedesktop.org standards. Getting > a compliant menu program to accept kde apps requires a little elbow > grease! I basically had to symlink lots of app stuff to my ~.local/share > area. > > Good luck > > >> Peper
Wow, what a waste of time. I don't like kde at all. Anyway, the xfce4 fonts are now all screwed up. They basically look really ragged like they aren't anti-aliased. I haven't touched any xfce settings, only kde stuff. The xfce4 settings still look like they're set correctly. I do use the xfs font server and it is running. Any idea how to fix this? Also, I do like how the kde file manager previews all images. Is there any way to get the xfce4 file manager (xffm) to do that? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
