ยท Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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]>
>> But maybe "dialup" might be good. But that's details.
>
> Yes, much easier to understand.
Well, fine. Details, details.... :)
>> >> 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.
Well, but as kdenetwork-meta is a dependency of kde-meta, this
"solution" means, that about 300 packages should be manually
listed, just because one package is not wanted. Because of that,
this is not really a solution - at least not a good one.
Alexander Skwar
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