Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Not to long ago, there was only a 150 or so packages for system regardless of the USE flags. I think that you are just mistaken about this point. I have pretty much always been able to make @system package count blow up by

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:10:27 -0600, Dale wrote: Not exactly. I'm saying I don't think X stuff should be in the system set regardless of USE flags. There is no X stuff in @system. what you are seeing is that some dependencies of @system have X in their IUSE, so pull in X, but that doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-26 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:10:27 -0600, Dale wrote: Not exactly. I'm saying I don't think X stuff should be in the system set regardless of USE flags. There is no X stuff in @system. what you are seeing is that some dependencies of @system have X in their IUSE, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:24:18 -0600, Dale wrote: I see your point but that isn't what I have been talking about. When I run emerge -e system, it pulls in a bunch of X stuff including KDE. Yea, it is because of USE flags but that didn't used to be the case. If I recall correctly, my system

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I don't object to having X stuff installed, I just don't think it should be pulled into the system set. The system set (@system) is comprised ONLY of the packages listed in the various packages files under /usr/portage/profiles.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:34:09AM -0600, Dale wrote I didn't tell portage to include KDE, qt, and a boatload of other stuff to be part of @system. Did I enable the kde USE flag, yea. That should be part of the world stuff not the system stuff. If I disable kde, qt

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 24.02.2011 01:48, schrieb Alex Schuster: Looks like normal behaviour to me. @system should be a small set, but when some packages in @system have kde USE flags, they will pull in KDE stuff. One can make an easy test to see how that works: USE=-kde emerge -e @system -vp Total: 181 packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: One can make an easy test to see how that works: USE=-kde emerge -e @system -vp Total: 181 packages emerge -e @system -v Total: 436 packages, The kde-useflag pulls in a waste of packages In my system-set are 50 packages: emerge @system -vp Total: 50 packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:57:00AM -0600, Dale wrote I tried a pretend emerge of khelpcenter. I had to unmask dbus and allow a bunch of use flags before it would run. Here's what I ended up with... USE=accessibility kde dbus qt3support ssl handbook exceptions emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 24.02.2011 13:32, schrieb Dale: My world file is fine. I went through it a while back and it is fairly small. It's the system set that is larger than normal. Your system set has 50 entries, that seems to be absolutly normal. The high count of entries in emerge -e @system comes from

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 24.02.2011 13:32, schrieb Dale: My world file is fine. I went through it a while back and it is fairly small. It's the system set that is larger than normal. Your system set has 50 entries, that seems to be absolutly normal. The high count of entries in emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 24.02.2011 14:03, schrieb Dale: If I do this: USE=-* emerge -pv system I get this: Total: 50 packages (50 reinstalls) What a difference USE flags makes huh? You forgot to add the e, without it you reinstall only the 50 packages in @system, because the dependencies are all there at

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 24.02.2011 13:32, schrieb Dale: My world file is fine. I went through it a while back and it is fairly small. It's the system set that is larger than normal. Your system set has 50 entries, that seems to be absolutly normal. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 24.02.2011 14:03, schrieb Dale: If I do this: USE=-* emerge -pv system I get this: Total: 50 packages (50 reinstalls) What a difference USE flags makes huh? You forgot to add the e, without it you reinstall only the 50 packages in @system, because the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: I use fluxbox and sometimes wmaker. Probably a lot of people are put off by the default configs, but both offer extremely powerful and versatile customization tools. Add your fave terminal emulator (I recommend terminator for it's killer feature set) and conky for system

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:03:06 -0600, Dale wrote: I just wonder if the devs have noticed how much this has grown when packages with X flags are included in the system set?. Would Gnome do the same? What about other GUI's? What does it matter? They are only dependencies of @system, but they

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:03:06 -0600, Dale wrote: I just wonder if the devs have noticed how much this has grown when packages with X flags are included in the system set?. Would Gnome do the same? What about other GUI's? What does it matter? They are only

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:21:54 -0600, Dale wrote: I was always under the impression that @system was supposed to be a limited set of packages to build, including dependencies. For me, if I have a issue, I usually start with emerge -e system to see if it helps. Since there is some KDE stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 24.02.2011 16:21, schrieb Dale: I was always under the impression that @system was supposed to be a limited set of packages to build, including dependencies. For me, if I have a issue, I usually start with emerge -e system to see if it helps. Since there is some KDE stuff in there, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:21:54 -0600, Dale wrote: I was always under the impression that @system was supposed to be a limited set of packages to build, including dependencies. For me, if I have a issue, I usually start with emerge -e system to see if it helps. Since

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:03:06 -0600, Dale wrote: I just wonder if the devs have noticed how much this has grown when packages with X flags are included in the system set?.  Would Gnome do the same?  What

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP   I posted something a couple of years ago about using -java in make.conf because I found with +java I got almost twice as many packages in @system. (Except it wasn't @system at the time) I started putting java

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:34:09 -0600, Dale wrote: Actually, it is, because you told it to be. To me, KDE is not a system package, because I run different USE flags to you. Gentoo gave you the gun but you pointed it at your foot :) I didn't tell portage to include KDE, qt, and a boatload of

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:34:09AM -0600, Dale wrote I didn't tell portage to include KDE, qt, and a boatload of other stuff to be part of @system. Did I enable the kde USE flag, yea. That should be part of the world stuff not the system stuff. If I disable kde, qt and all the others

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:28:12 -0600, Dale wrote: What is KDE and qt doing in there? Did I add these somehow? I'm using the KDE profile is that where it came from. I just think this is sort of weird. The KDE profile sets the kde USE flag - see

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:28:12 -0600, Dale wrote: What is KDE and qt doing in there? Did I add these somehow? I'm using the KDE profile is that where it came from. I just think this is sort of weird. The KDE profile sets the kde USE flag - see

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:47:59 -0600, Dale wrote: This is snippets since this is a long list. I can't believe system has gotten this big. It's almost half the packages on my system. o_O [nomerge ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.7 [nomerge ] virtual/mysql-5.1 [ebuild R]

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 23 February 2011 05:47:59 Dale wrote: snipped The total packages it wants to build for system is 401. Is this normal? I only have about 900 in all. Not to long ago, system was only about 200 or so. Dale :-) :-) No, that is not (necessarily) normal. On my system here,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I been doing a little testing here.  I notice something weird here.  Did I do this somehow?  Why are these part of the system set? root@fireball / # emerge -ep system | grep kde [ebuild   R   ~] kde-base/kde-env-4.6.0 [ebuild  

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: This isn't much help, you need the parts where the KDE/QT packages are shown as ebuild, not nomerge. That will show you what is requiring them. emerge -ept | grep -B 4 kdelibs should find that for you, or emerge -ept | most (or your preferred pager) then search for

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/23/2011 10:57 AM, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: This isn't much help, you need the parts where the KDE/QT packages are shown as ebuild, not nomerge. That will show you what is requiring them. emerge -ept | grep -B 4 kdelibs should find that for you, or emerge -ept | most (or your

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: Near as I can tell, your problem originates here: [nomerge ] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.6.0 [nomerge ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1 [ebuild R ~] kde-base/nepomuk-4.6.0 [ebuild R ~] kde-misc/polkit-kde-kcmodules-0.98_pre20101127 [ebuild R ~]

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Mike Edenfield wrote: Near as I can tell, your problem originates here: [nomerge ] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.6.0 [nomerge ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1 [ebuild R ~] kde-base/nepomuk-4.6.0 [ebuild R ~] kde-misc/polkit-kde-kcmodules-0.98_pre20101127 [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:57:00AM -0600, Dale wrote I tried a pretend emerge of khelpcenter. I had to unmask dbus and allow a bunch of use flags before it would run. Here's what I ended up with... USE=accessibility kde dbus qt3support ssl handbook exceptions emerge -pv khelpcenter

[gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-22 Thread Dale
I been doing a little testing here. I notice something weird here. Did I do this somehow? Why are these part of the system set? root@fireball / # emerge -ep system | grep kde [ebuild R ~] kde-base/kde-env-4.6.0 [ebuild R ~] kde-base/oxygen-icons-4.6.0 [ebuild R ~]