On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:20:54 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:

> > I imagine that if I tried to install the modular kde ebuilds, as
> > opposed to  emerging monolithic kde, I might be able to work round
> > this problem, but I  would have to unmerge kde before I started
> > wouldn't I?  That would put me at  risk of being without a desktop
> > manager for quite a while if something went  wrong, wouldn't it?
 
> I have no idea (not a big KDE user), but really, for the last part there
 
> is a simple answer: emerge a "little" WM like icewm, fluxbox, blackbox, 
> openbox, waimea, rox, fvwm or whatever (even XFCE might count) before 
> unmerging KDE (if you do so).

kdelibs is unchanged. You should be able to "emerge -C kdebase && emerge
kdebase-meta" then restart KDE. You can then switch each of the monolithic
components to the meta equivalent while KDE is running, as long as you
don't try to use parts of that component during the process.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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