On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is good to hear, but it's entirely theoretical from my point of view. How
would I find out about turning off KDE and turning on twm? I'd like to
practice this before I destroy my system. Real soon now, in fact, because
(see separate posting) my system seems to be crumbling as I write this.
Parenthetically, gmail is just where I direct all my email subscriptions.
I'm not so happy with their privacy policies, but there's nothing personal
here and I like being able to search an archive of the stuff I get. 600 MB
and growning, and it's free (so far).
Hmph. You call 300 separate ebuilds manageable? I suppose it is if
you meta them in as a chunk. So the payoff is in not recompiling them all
when one changes? I guess that's reasonable. Un-humph.
Thanks. You just convinced me.
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:12:48 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I first guess is to unmerge everything KDE, but even then, I'm not quite
> sure
Not everything KDE, leave arts and any other dependencies
> what I should emerge in its place. kde-meta? And what will my system
> be capable of in the meantime? Is there some subset that will get my
> desktop back in working order relatively quickly (would "emerge
> konsole kalarm" do? What's the name of the app that displays a
> panel/taskbar).
"emerge -1av kdebase-meta" will bring in a basic KDE desktop, including
what you mention.
"emerge -1av konsole kwin kicker pager kalarm" is quicker and should
give you what you need. either way, follow it up with "emerge kde-meta"
or pick and choose the packages you want rather than installing
everything KDE, it's one of the advantages of the split ebuilds.
> Dang, but this is a lot to figure out and trust that
> I've got it right while I destroy my ability to
> ask for help if I get it wrong.
You use gmail, so as long as you have a desktop (twm is included with
xorg) and a browser (firefox?) you can communicate.
This is good to hear, but it's entirely theoretical from my point of view. How
would I find out about turning off KDE and turning on twm? I'd like to
practice this before I destroy my system. Real soon now, in fact, because
(see separate posting) my system seems to be crumbling as I write this.
Parenthetically, gmail is just where I direct all my email subscriptions.
I'm not so happy with their privacy policies, but there's nothing personal
here and I like being able to search an archive of the stuff I get. 600 MB
and growning, and it's free (so far).
> What's the name of the gizmo that puts the clock in my panel/taskbar?
> Is that
> a panel or a taskbar, and will a mistake in terminology prevent my
> system from
> ever looking like this again? Is there some little gizmo I'm used to
> using that
> will suddenly disappear, and how will I know what its name anyway when
> I can no longer see it?
If you emerge kde-meta, you'll have everything that the monolithic kde
ebuild gave you, just in manageable bite-sized chunks.
Hmph. You call 300 separate ebuilds manageable? I suppose it is if
you meta them in as a chunk. So the payoff is in not recompiling them all
when one changes? I guess that's reasonable. Un-humph.
Thanks. You just convinced me.
--
Neil Bothwick
Like Entropy, bugs can only be created, not destroyed.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
