On 2007-06-15, Dale wrote:
Peter Ruskin wrote:
With big hard discs cheap and with ADSL
connection, the advantages of the meta packages are diminished.
If I understand your meaning correctly, not everyone can get broadband.
I'm on dial-up and it is all that is available here where I live.
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:08:52 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
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.
No, because as I covered in my other reply, you
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:10:00 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
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.
What about the need to recompile only one part of KDE when
On Monday 18 June 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm not sure USE flags for the meta packages are a good idea, they
could add a lot of confusion. The meta packages are supposed to
install everything, if you don't want that, don't use them.
I think what Alexander is on about is USE flags only for
Hello Alan McKinnon,
'emerge *-meta' is fine if one wants everything, or 'emerge kopete
kmail konqueror' if you just want a few bits like me, but there's this
large no-man's land in the middle where it is just unweildy. No fault
of Gentoo, it's all KDEs fault for having 300+ distinct
On Monday 18 June 2007 14:36:05 Neil Bothwick wrote:
I have most of KDE installed here, yet
only 67 kde-base packages in world.
I run fairly light, I have about half that many:
$ grep -c ^kde /var/db/pkg/world
31
I do have a number of KDE applications installed from other parts of the tree
On Monday 18 June 2007 16:36:38 Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Monday 18 June 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
/var/db/pkg/world
I think your system may need updating - the world file has lived
in /var/lib/portage for some time now.
Paludis prefers it @ /var/db/pkg/world. I have both on my
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I suggest that a cleaner method would be to not install kde-meta
or kdenetwork-meta at all but instead just install the KDE applications
that you require.
Actually, I disagree.
This would (obviously *g*) mean, that kde-meta cannot be
Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar:
This would (obviously *g*) mean, that kde-meta cannot be installed
(just as you say). This means, that a whole shit load of packages
would need to be manually installed. And all that, just because you
don't want one or two packages?
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage
assume, that a package is installed)':
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I suggest that a cleaner method would be to not install
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
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 -meta packages are a good idea.
Peter Ruskin wrote:
With big hard discs cheap and with ADSL
connection, the advantages of the meta packages are diminished.
If I understand your meaning correctly, not everyone can get broadband.
I'm on dial-up and it is all that is available here where I live. DSL
may be here soon but
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