On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer >>> important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia. >>> I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. All I need from >>> any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for multiple >>> desktops. >>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation >>> toolchains or in a browser. >>> >>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from >>> running out of disk space. A little research showed that an >>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some >>> dotfiles. It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is. I've got >>> a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never near >>> full before. >> >> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. emerge -auDN world. emerge >> -a --depclean. That should do it. >> >> > > Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the semantic-desktop > use flag set? >
For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn off the services after installing them. Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment, he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk space. --Mike
