Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Harry Putnam wrote: >> First off, this is an install from scratch. >> >> While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it >> later. > > ^^ huh? > >> And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts of kde do what. >> I'm not compiling kde-meta either, but I've got bit more than once >> with missing stuff I later needed. > > When did I say meta...
I was differentiating what you did say `kdebase' with the full blown kde-meta and noting I was somewhere in the middle with an emerge -v kde. >> I just don't find it all that embracing flopping around in the many many >> ways one can screw up with USE var, KEYWORDS and the dozens of >> combinations of there use.. > > I'm not sure quite how you're messing with your USE flags... Every concievable foolish thing I'm sure...: ). I wasn't really arguing with you in my response. Only saying that for us unlearned folks, the system of USE variables (how they are compiled) and the use of KEYWORD masking, provide a somemwhat bewildering array of ways to do things and therefor ways to get it wrong too. -- [email protected] mailing list
