On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:13:08 +0300, Cadaver wrote:
I tried to update my gentoo instalation with 'emerge update world' ( i
have kde-meta installed instead kde), but 'kolf' (probably it is some
game from kdegames) failed to build. Then I remove kolf (I don't need
it) and try 'emerge --pretend world', but 'kolf' and some other not
installed packages from kde appear in the list. 'equery depends kolf'
shows nothig. What's wrong with dependencies and how to prevent of
installing some unwanted packages?
If you don't want all of kde, you shouldn't be installing kde-meta.
1) emerge -C kde-meta - this won't actually uninstall anything.
2) emerge depclean -p - this shows which packages are now considered not
needed.
3) Then add the packages you do want to world with emerge -n packagename
Only add the packages you want, not their dependencies. Things like
kdelibs, arts, libkonq etc should never be in world.
4) goto 2 until the list contains only packages you don't want
5) emerge depclean
You'll end up with a much leaner system. As an alternative to having
every KDE package in world, you could install some of the section meta
packages. I install kdebase-meta, kdenetwork-meta, kdeartwork-meta and
koffice-meta. the rest, I choose individual packages.
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Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 30: Business ethics
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