Hello!
Currently, as you all surely already know, KDE is currently handled with
metapackages or monolithic packages. The metapackages is very
convenient for a more complete install of KDE, and the monolithic
packages are better or a more modular install. However, with the
metapackages, it seems much more difficult than necessary to rebuild the
KDE packages. Like, say I wanted to add a user flag to support
something I just added, like xinerama support. With metapackages the
way they are now, I would have to completely uninstall every single
package and then reemerge the metapackage and it's dependencies. Just
simply reemerging the metapackage doesn't actually recompile anything.
Also, if I wanted to add support for part of KDE, like say, alsa support
for kdemultimedia, I would have to manually unemerge each individual
package related to kdemultimedia and then reemerge the metapackage.
My question is; Is there any better way to do these kinds of things
yet? If not, are there any plans for making this kind of process any
easier for the users? I really like KDE and I'm sure there are a lot of
other people that do as well. I can understand the reason for going to
metapackages, but it doesn't seem to have been as smooth of a process as
intended. At least not in some aspects. I am not a developer, and I
apologize if this has already been addressed. I haven't seen anything
related to this issue. The KDE howto docs seem to assume the user is
doing an initial install and it doesn't address if part of a metapackage
is to be reinstalled. It also suggests metapackages over monolithic
packages. I'm not really sure of the reason for such a suggestion if
making a change to the USE flags is going to be so difficult.
Maybe somebody can clear this up for me? Again, I apologize if this has
already been addressed.
Thanks,
Mike
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