On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 04:23:59 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > The differences between the profiles are mainly the USE flags set. As > > your system is already built with the plasma profiles, I'd add gnome > > to your USE flags and emerge gnome-base/gnome. Portage will shout at > > you if you need to enable any other USE flags. > > Don't know. There's use flags that seem to be set because it's > recommended to set them, not because they're needed. > > It seems to me that I have to choose either-or here in order to have a > well working desktop. Otherwise, if something doesn't seem work right, > I'll never know whether it's because of the profile or because of > something else. > > I suppose I have to switch to the gnome profile and then see if KDE is > still working as before. But it seems I'll have to manually replicate > whatever the plasma profile is setting by hand.
Just compare the USE flags defaults for the two desktops. % cat /var/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/gnome/make.defaults # Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 USE="colord eds evo gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gstreamer introspection libsecret nautilus pulseaudio tracker" % cat /var/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/make.defaults # Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 USE="activities consolekit declarative dri kde kipi kwallet phonon plasma policykit qml semantic-desktop widgets xcomposite" As long as you have all of these set you should be OK, whichever profile you start with. After all, a profile is only a convenient starting point. You could even create your own profile for both desktops, which could be useful if you want to replicate the setup on more than one computer. -- Neil Bothwick Synonym: a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
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