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On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:46 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> after some suggestions from the list I finally emerged KDE to give it |
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> another try. Even with 256 MiB of RAM, it works quite acceptably, save |
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> for the startup time. However, I notice it has installed all sorts of |
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> marginally useful and ultimately resource consuming software such as |
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> KWallet. Now, I realise the risks of keeping passwords scattered all |
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> around (sometimes even unencrypted), but in my environment it's not |
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> that great a priority. |
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> I would like to know if unmerging KWallet (also the eduitainment suite |
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> and possibly even Kopette and Konqueror) is safe. How can I tell for |
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> other packages? Is emerge --unmerge enough or do other measures have |
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> to be taken? Also, in the case of a fresh install, how can I choose |
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> what KDE installs? Do I have to run emerge kde, or would kdelibs, |
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> kdebase, etc (along with their dependencies of course) suffice? |
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Here's my opinion about the whole thing (note that I don't use KDE so |
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this is an opinion in general). If you don't like something, don't use |
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it. If you don't like the edutainment stuff, don't run any of those |
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programs and you don't be using any resources. If you don't want to use |
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KWallet then don't run it. If it's running in the background or |
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something then that means that something that you *are* using depends on |
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KWallet and that's probably something you don't want to unmerge. |
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Yeah, you could go around experimenting with unmerging packages, but you |
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will likely find that a) these packages will get re-merged on the next |
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install/update, b) you will break some program that depends on that |
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package which the end result is c) you will waste way too much |
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time/energy debugging a. & b. |
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You can also manipulate USE flags to disable various (optional) features |
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of packages. |
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