Thanks a lot! Francisco
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinri...@online.de>wrote: > Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 22:45:49 schrieb Francisco Ares: > > > And how do I tell if an ebuild is monolithic or not? > > The monolithic ones install larger parts of KDE, and usually have the same > names as the original source packages offered at KDE.org. > > The split ebuilds, well, split those packages into their individual > applications, so you have ebuilds for konqueror (which is also part of > kdenetwork) or kmail (kdepim). In addition, there are the "-meta" ebuilds, > which have the same name as the monolitic ones, but with -meta appended > (kdepim-meta). Those usually install the same applications than monolithic > ebuilds, but as split ebuilds. > > So, when you install kde, you get a complete KDE from monolithic ebuilds > and > when you install kde-meta, you get a complete KDE from split ebuilds. > > That's also the reason why they block each other. When you have kdepim > installed, you already got kmail, so you shouldn't install kmail from the > split ebuild again. > > HTH... > > Dirk > > > -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
