On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:13:08 +0300, Cadaver wrote: > I tried to update my gentoo instalation with 'emerge update world' ( i > have kde-meta installed instead kde), but 'kolf' (probably it is some > game from kdegames) failed to build. Then I remove kolf (I don't need > it) and try 'emerge --pretend world', but 'kolf' and some other not > installed packages from kde appear in the list. 'equery depends kolf' > shows nothig. What's wrong with dependencies and how to prevent of > installing some unwanted packages?
If you don't want all of kde, you shouldn't be installing kde-meta.
1) emerge -C kde-meta - this won't actually uninstall anything.
2) emerge depclean -p - this shows which packages are now considered not
needed.
3) Then add the packages you do want to world with emerge -n packagename
Only add the packages you want, not their dependencies. Things like
kdelibs, arts, libkonq etc should never be in world.
4) goto 2 until the list contains only packages you don't want
5) emerge depclean
You'll end up with a much leaner system. As an alternative to having
every KDE package in world, you could install some of the section meta
packages. I install kdebase-meta, kdenetwork-meta, kdeartwork-meta and
koffice-meta. the rest, I choose individual packages.
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Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 30: Business ethics
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