On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The "ppp" flag is already "known" to portage. > > --($:~/tmp)-- euses -i ppp > net-dialup/capi4k-utils:pppd - Installs pppdcapiplugin modules
That's "pppd", not "ppp" > But maybe "dialup" might be good. But that's details. Yes, much easier to understand. > >> I mean, what's the advantage of the kde*-meta packages over the kde > >> package, when the kde*-meta require just as much "junk", as the > >> kde package does? Hm, really, what's the use of the kde*-meta package > >> anyway? > > > > The kde-meta package is meant to replace the kde package. The is no > > advantage (and without a workable confcache, at least one > > disadvantage) to running split ebuilds. The advantage of split ebilds > > is that you have the choice to install only the kde applications you > > want, by using the individual ebaulds, without dragging in all of kde > > (which is what "old" style kde packages pulled in as a dependency.) > > But with using the kde*-meta package, this advantage doesn't > exist. Right, because kde*-meta is supposed to replace, and act as much as possible like the monolithic kde* package. If you don't want all of kdenetwork you don't install kdenetwork-meta, you install individual applications from kdenetwork. Of course, any USE flags available on the old monolithic packages, as well as any use configure options from upstream, should be exposed. > > Are the monolithic ebuilds still available? > > Yes. Eg. kdemultimedia-3.5.7.ebuild > > > They need to be purged from > > the tree ASAP. > > Have phun with bugzilla :) > > Or where should something like this actually be brought > up? Probably the developer list, I'm sure someone from the kde herd would hear you there. > > - > > Your signature is delimited in a wrong way. Odd, I must have accidentally cut one of the -s. Kmail properly uses "-- \n" as this message and my first in the thread can attest. It does let you edit you signature and the separator, and I must have mistakenly taken advantage of that. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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