On 1/30/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 29 January 2007 22:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> after some suggestions from the list I finally emerged KDE to give it
> another try. Even with 256 MiB of RAM, it works quite acceptably, save
> for the startup time.
Two things to improve startup:
Prelink your whole system. "prelink -avmRf" should do. It will run for quite
some time but applications will start faster afterwards. You have to repeat
it after each major emerge session.
Make sure that
Preloader=/usr/kde/3.5/bin/preloadkde
is set in /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
> However, I notice it has installed all sorts of
> marginally useful and ultimately resource consuming software such as
> KWallet.
You can as well simply switch it of:
Control Center->Security & Privacy->KDE Wallet
> Now, I realise the risks of keeping passwords scattered all
> around (sometimes even unencrypted), but in my environment it's not
> that great a priority.
>
> I would like to know if unmerging KWallet (also the eduitainment suite
> and possibly even Kopette and Konqueror) is safe. How can I tell for
> other packages? Is emerge --unmerge enough or do other measures have
> to be taken? Also, in the case of a fresh install, how can I choose
> what KDE installs? Do I have to run emerge kde, or would kdelibs,
> kdebase, etc (along with their dependencies of course) suffice?
You need to emerge kdelibs and kdebase. Afterwards you can emerge single
applications.
Hi everyone,
I did a monolithic KDE install and that is why uninstalling individual
components is not easy. However, the install has served its purpose --
I only wanted to see common pitfalls in installing KDE, for when I do
a complete system reinstall (possibly even changing hardware). Next
time I will do a split ebuild install and carefully select what I
need.
Thanks for the tips,
Vlad
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