Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 August 2011 09:07:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Add a variable at the top to define the bin directory to use. Then > users can change it to whatever suits them. > > /tmp is a good default, except when it's mounted noexec. > Same for ~ > > Almost every reasonable choice will have times

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 00:02:15 Walter Dnes did opine thusly: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:34:33AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > Interesting - thanks! It found an unused library file (qdbm) > > here that nothing else had. > > > > One suggestion: I'd create cleanscript in /tmp rather than > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 08:17:57AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > Oh, also don't forget to delete cleanscript.000 ;) The autodepclean script cleans out the the temporary file with... echo "#" > cleanscript.000 ...Note the ">" which zaps cleanscript.000. I leave it around as a debugging aid. T

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:34:33AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > Interesting - thanks! It found an unused library file (qdbm) here that > nothing else had. > > One suggestion: I'd create cleanscript in /tmp rather than wherever I > happened to be at the time. Question... how many people have

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
Cool! I can see myself using this script routinely. That said, since one *must* check the resulting script anyway, why not start the editor directly after chmod? E.g.: $EDITOR cleanscript Oh, also don't forget to delete cleanscript.000 ;) Rgds, On 2011-08-20, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Aug

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 August 2011 00:14:07 Walter Dnes wrote: > Here's my "autodepclean" script. It parses the output of a pretend > depclean and generates, but does not execute, a script called > "cleanscript", which has to be run as root. Note the warning to check > "cleanscript" before running it.

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 05:19:29PM +0200, Space Cake wrote > I'll try to avoid as many kde/gnome application as I can :) I don't > really like them because I want to have my window in front of me right > when click on the icon :). I just started to clean-up my useflags, > changed to desktop pr

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:50, András Csányi wrote: > 2011/8/19 Space Cake : > > > > my question is what is the easiest way to get rid of kde/gnome stuff? is > > this enough to change my useflags to -kde and -gnome? Is there any list > > what I can safely unmerge in this case? > > I think we agre

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Space Cake
On 2011. aug. 19., péntek, 16.50.09 CEST, András Csányi wrote: > 2011/8/19 Space Cake : >> hi, >> >> after playing a lot with desktop environment first I've decided to move >> from kde to gnome because kde is too "shine" and eat too much and >> contains a lot of feature which I don't really need..

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread András Csányi
2011/8/19 Space Cake : > hi, > > after playing a lot with desktop environment first I've decided to move > from kde to gnome because kde is too "shine" and eat too much and > contains a lot of feature which I don't really need.. gnome is good but > still too fat so finally I've found Xfce which

[gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Space Cake
hi, after playing a lot with desktop environment first I've decided to move from kde to gnome because kde is too "shine" and eat too much and contains a lot of feature which I don't really need.. gnome is good but still too fat so finally I've found Xfce which is perfect for my needs... :) my