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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:04:35
Message-Id: 4D65A375.5050502@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set? by Mike Edenfield
1 Mike Edenfield wrote:
2 > Near as I can tell, your problem originates here:
3 >
4 > [nomerge ] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.6.0
5 > [nomerge ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1
6 > [ebuild R ~] kde-base/nepomuk-4.6.0
7 > [ebuild R ~] kde-misc/polkit-kde-kcmodules-0.98_pre20101127
8 > [ebuild R ~] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.6.0
9 > [ebuild R ~] sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent-0.99.0
10 > [ebuild R ~] kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1
11 >
12 > Every other KDE or Qt package in the emerge output can be traced back to
13 > being a dependency of khelpcenter (directly or indirectly). Although
14 > technically that's not even true, since khelpcenter *doesn't* depend on
15 > kdelibs, not since 4.4.5, but your portage seems to think it still does.
16 > And once you've pulled in kdelibs, you eventually depend on everything
17 > else in the universe as well (including, of course, khelpcenter!).
18 >
19 > Do you, by any chance, have a file named /etc/portage/profile/packages?
20 > The only way for a package to get into your system set is if it's
21 > package atom is:
22 >
23 > * Listed in a file named 'packages' somewhere in your set of profile
24 > paths, and
25 > * Prefixed with a "*" within that file
26 >
27 > --Mike
28 >
29 >
30 >
31
32 I don't even have the profile directory:
33
34 root@fireball / # ls -al /etc/portage/
35 total 6
36 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 328 Feb 22 21:18 .
37 drwxr-xr-x 78 root root 4568 Feb 23 18:02 ..
38 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 22 21:18 .keep_sys-apps_portage-0
39 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Feb 22 18:57 bin
40 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 464 Feb 22 17:43 package.keywords
41 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Feb 3 02:27 package.mask
42 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 504 Feb 22 17:44 package.unmask
43 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 680 Feb 18 06:20 package.use
44 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Feb 22 18:57 postsync.d
45 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Dec 11 17:09 savedconfig
46 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Feb 16 19:10 sets
47 root@fireball / #
48
49 I created the package.* ones and I think I did the sets one too. I
50 haven't messed with the others tho.
51
52 I wonder if the devs know about all this? Is this something they should
53 know about? Is this unique to me? I have KDE installed by using the
54 kde-meta but surely I'm not the only one that uses it.
55
56 Dale
57
58 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set? Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>