[gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Where do I read about what all is in xorg-x11 versus xorg-server(which is all that kde-meta needs?)? What exactly does kde-meta needs and such emerge kde-meta -pv should show you all that KDE needs. Yep, that is what I thought to but it

[gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: !!! Error: circular dependencies: That's usually because you've changed your USE flags yep, compiling the individual packages without the USE flags in a oneshot, got me around these circular dependencies. thx, James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: emerge -av $(cat /path/to/oldworld) I'll give it a whirl, when/after I get kde-meta happy. I did change flags so that might be the cause of the circular dependencies. thanks Neil, it been since 2005 since I had to perform a handbook install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello James, Yep, that is what I thought to but it fails. When I issue 'emerge -vN kde-meta' I get a long list (as expected) follow by many of these error messages: !!! Error: circular dependencies: That's usually because you've changed your USE flags substantially from the default

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:01:15 + (UTC), James wrote: Where do I read about what all is in xorg-x11 versus xorg-server(which is all that kde-meta needs?)? What exactly does kde-meta needs and such emerge kde-meta -pv should show you all that KDE needs. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons

[gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: emerge xorg-x11 That's a meta-package, you only need to install xorg-server. This is not pulled in by KDE because a local X server is not a requirement to run KDE, although KDE does depend on several X11 libraries. Hmm, nice to know. Where do

[gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread James
Samir Faci samir.list at gmail.com writes: if you've just completed a proper install from the handbook (presuming a bootable system, with bootloader, cron/syslog, etc). you really don't need to do a system.kde-meta (iirc should pull xorg as a dependency, so all you'd need is kde-meta and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:53:23 + (UTC), James wrote: One more question. I remember some time ago somebody had a slick script or method to compile the apps listed in the world file, from an existing system to the new system, all together at once, rather that typing in all of those app names