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Anand Buddhdev posted <4300AB9A.4000201@×××××.org>, excerpted below, on |
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Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:50:02 +0200: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> So I've finally gotten Gentoo Linux (2005.1 release) going on my shiny |
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> new AMD64 system. I've emerged some basic packages, and xorg-x11. But |
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> now I want to install gnome. If I do "emerge -p gnome", it prints out a |
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> rather hefty list of packages that will get installed. But I don't want |
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> all the stuff. I just want the basic gnome desktop, and its |
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> dependencies, but not epiphany, evolution, and the several other packages. |
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> I cannot emerge gnome-light, because it is masked. Is there any way I |
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> can install a minimal gnome system? |
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The short answer to your question is yes, there's a way, it involves |
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using this package, but it hasn't yet been tested well enough to be marked |
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stable, yet. A more detailed answer follows. |
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I don't know how new you are to Gentoo, so don't know if you know |
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the significance of ~arch, but gnome-light appears to be ~amd64 masked. |
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If you don't know the significance of ~arch masking, I suggest you read |
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the Gentoo Handbook, but basically, it's "unstable", meaning someone on |
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that arch (amd64 in this case) found it worked for them, but the package |
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hasn't been thoroughly tested enough to be considered fully-stable yet, |
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and may have some issues in certain installations or with certain USE |
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flags. If you wish, you can unmask individual ~arch packages it by |
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placing an appropriate entry in /etc/portage/package.keyword. Again, I'd |
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suggest you read the handbook and understand the significance of what you |
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are doing, before you try it, but in theory, it should work, and has |
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worked for others, or the package wouldn't be keyworded for that arch at |
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all. |
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Specifically for gnome-light, according to the comments in the ebuilds |
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themselves, gnome-light is considered experimental. In theory, it's the |
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minimal gnome installation without all the fat, which is what you are |
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after. However, such a configuration isn't yet well tested on Gentoo, and |
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may be buggy in certain cases. That's why it's still marked unstable. |
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Thus, in this particular case, it seems it's not an amd64 specific issue, |
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but rather that the whole idea of a minimal gnome installation hasn't yet |
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been well enough tested on Gentoo to be marked stable yet, on any arch. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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