Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

[Dmitri Pogosyan]

I was never fond of split ebuilds, because I found you end up installing
almost everything anyway but managing them becomes much more cumbersome.
Bad example is X - I do not have qualification anyway to decide that I need
this library but not that one, and it seems that every single library comes in
it own ebuild, so you start to wonder why not compile each C program individually.

Saying that, I found KDE 3.5.10 split extremely well thought through and
really useful. It is organzied in well defined (and not too numerous) meta
blocks which contain pieces of service packages (like kioslaves) that are
relevant to this block, kdebase-meta is fully functional minimalist
installation, and extra apps that you may need are very intuitive to find.

So kudos to developers on that. 

> Good input.
>
> QUESTION: I've been somewhat unhappy over the last year with Gentoo
> package maintainers doing little updates to gnome files which seems to
> drive more and more little updates. Granted, I could mask things,
> etc., but I've found it frustrating. I've worried with KDE that it's
> so big I'll find myself updating files pretty much all the time. Is
> this warranted or just me worrying?
>
> Cheers,
> Mark



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