On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:47:09 -0500, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 21:59 +0200, Dan Armak wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > As of yesterday, the 'split' KDE ebuilds for 3.4.0_beta1 are in portage. > > Split > > ebuilds means instead of 15 ebuilds the size of kdebase, you get some 350 > > small ebuilds for konqueror and so forth. There's more info at > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/kde-split-ebuilds.html. > > > > They're p-masked, but that's due to the beta, not the splittedness. Massive > > testing is invited - tell your friends. > > > > In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that there are > > monolithic (old-style) 3.4.0_beta1 ebuilds there too, and you can even mix > > the two kinds. But I'd really like to see everyone use the split ebuilds :-) > > So what happens when I "emerge kde"? I'm mostly asking for the LiveCD > of the future. I doubt we'll see this go stable by 2005.0, but 2005.1 > will definitely face it. Will it install all of KDE? Will it install > only the required parts? Basically, I guess I want to know what changes > are in store for the kde meta-package. >
its kde-meta and it will install every KDE package. Each kde package (like kde multimedia) has its own meta package like kdemultimedia-meta. That way you can remove the meta package and depclean to remove any chunk of KDE you like. I mentioned kde-meta above and how to deal with it. > -- > Chris Gianelloni > Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager > Games - Developer > Gentoo Linux > > > -- [email protected] mailing list
