On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> That's what I thought until I moved to the kde profile, at which time >> it seems to about 80% of kde-meta became part of @system. <SNIP> > > I complained about KDE stuff being in the system set looooong ago. It is > because of USE flags that they are being pulled in. I don't like the idea > but if you, or a dev, disables all the USE flags that pulls in KDE, us KDE > users are going to have things breaking left and right. It seemed to have > gotten worse when hal bit the dust. At that point udev and other system > tools picked up the slack and KDE got pulled into system. That's my theory > at least.
I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember. - Mark
