On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:39:52 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > You use gmail, so as long as you have a desktop (twm is included with > > xorg) and a browser (firefox?) you can communicate.
> This is good to hear, but it's entirely theoretical from my point of > view. How > would I find out about turning off KDE and turning on twm? If you use /etc/rc.conf to set your desktop (the Gentoo way) then booting to a console and running startx will give you twm. alternatively, you could emerge another window manager, such as Fluxbox. > I'd like to > practice this before I destroy my system. I love your optimism :) > > If you emerge kde-meta, you'll have everything that the monolithic kde > > ebuild gave you, just in manageable bite-sized chunks. > Hmph. You call 300 separate ebuilds manageable? I suppose it is if > you meta them in as a chunk. It's also manageable in that you can manage what gets installed. You have the choice of using a meta-package to install everything, or picking only the apps you want installed. Why install kmail and its dependencies if you use a different mailer? > So the payoff is in not recompiling them > all when one changes? I guess that's reasonable. Un-humph. It certainly makes bugfix and security updates a lot faster. -- Neil Bothwick Bugs are Sons of Glitches
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