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On 31/03/16 11:28, Duncan wrote: |
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> I've been able to patch out the (source) deps, and instead of patching |
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> the ebuilds themselves, I've placed those patches in the appropriate |
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> /etc/portage/patches/kde-plasma/plasma-[desktop|workspace]/ locations so |
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> the ebuilds apply them automatically, and either package.provided the |
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> baloo package itself to fake the dep for the ebuilds (works, but |
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> package.provided is deprecated), or created a fake baloo in my overlay |
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> that installs no files (what I'm actually doing now). |
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> That eliminates the actual baloo installation alone with the couple of |
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> other packages that only it pulled in on my system. |
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I'd say that Gentoo should not maintain their own fork of KDE. It's way |
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too much work. It's up to upstream to do this. |
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In my case, I don't need desktop search and have all that stuff disabled |
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in System Settings. A KDE build-time option would be useful, but I don't |
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think they consider this an issue, since users can disable it. |
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