On Saturday 15 January 2005 23:47, Chris Gianelloni 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. For now (kde 3.4.x timeline) split and monolithic ebuilds coexist. If you emerge kde, you get the monolithic ones, exactly the same as in 3.3. If you emerge kde-meta, you get the split ones.
-- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
pgppxftpd1Zj4.pgp
Description: PGP signature
