Hi all,
Just what is happening with ebuilds today? At work, I'm in the process
of setting up a workstation using the KDE profile. I've gone to the KDE
install doco on the wiki, http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE, had a read
and it says that I'll need D-Bus, polkit, udev and udisks. I can emerge
D-Bus with no problems then onto polkit which its wiki says needs D-Bus
and consolekit.
So I attempt to install consolekit and bingo, there's the avalanche.
Perl crap everywhere, Samba, MySQL & MariaDB, and I don't even use
either of these DB's, a battle between LibAV and FFMPEG, what looks like
all of KDE and oh look, there's vlc along for the ride. Even zlib
decides it wants to come along but manages to block itself. That many
files want to come along to the party that I can't "Shift PgUp" back up
through my text console to see it all - a text console because I don't
have any graphics installed yet.
I had a look at the consolekit ebuild and it says that it needs polkit,
even though the wiki says that polkit depends upon consolekit - going
round in circles here. So I looked at the polkit ebuild and it looks
like it needs polkit-kde-agent, which to my untrained eye, probably is
responsible for this avalanche os stuff - I think....
So what do I have to do to not have this avalanche of stuff, so that I
can emerge pieces bit by bit, so that I can see what's happening. I've
probably got some of the above slightly wrong, "lost in translation"
going from work to home, but "the vibe" is there. It is so frustrating
when you sit there and see a massive list of packages, a good proportion
I don't even want, I'm looking at you MySQL/MariaDB - isn't this due to
the Akonadi mess, scroll up the screen and it makes no sense as to why
things are being brought in.
There, I've vented my spleen, any thoughts on how to control this
"beast" would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Andrew
