----- Original Message ----- From: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's preference, Gnome or KDE ?
| | It's almost a fact that most distros lean towards either Gnome or KDE. I tried In that case, this distro would be an exception :-) It is purported that Gentoo is ultimately about providing maximum choice to the user and you'll find that amongst the users there is a split between the two large desktop environments along with fluxbox which also has quite a large share. (I use none of these.) | KDE a year ago with Debian and was pretty impressed. Then again, this may | have been because of Debian's very slow updates to Gnome 2.2. I guess I just | wanted something different. | | I'm now using KDE 3.1.4 and am disappointed... My preferred desktop still | seems to be Enlightenment, in fact. :-) So, I'm considering getting rid of | KDE and going back to Gnome. | | What do people think ?? I know it's *my* choice, of course. If I decide to | switch, how do I do so and get the LATEST gnome stuff available ?? I'm not To get latest gnome stuff do: (1) edit /etc/make.conf to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" (2) emerge sync (3) emerge gnome Gnome 2.4 is marked stable atm which means you'll get it regardless of which tree you are on. My view? Stay with enlightenment ;-) | afraid of running "unstable", which I believe is the "-x86" flagged stuff. The most cutting edge branch of applications is referred to as the 'testing tree' and not 'unstable tree' simply because that is what it is intended to convey to the user. The correct variable value is actually "~x86" and not "-x86". | | Also, how would I "purge" all KDE stuff ?? I do like Konqueror and KMail. Are | static-linked packages available for those ?? There is no official method of removing a package and all its unused dependencies as yet. This is still being worked upon and has been pushed back a little bit. So, you'll have to do it manually. `emerge -C kde` will remove the package itself and then there are all sorts of tricks to get rid of dependencies some of which are mentioned below. -- remove all kde references from /var/cache/edb/world and do `emerge --depclean -p` and remove those (OR) -- `emerge gentoolkit && dep-clean -UNR` (OR) -- `emerge -Dep world | grep kde` (and then remove those) I'd also recommend familiarising yourself with the various wonders of etcat and qpkg from gentoolkit. HTH. | | Regards | Hall | | | -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
