Re: [gentoo-dev] big packages

[Dan Armak]

On Saturday 06 April 2002 12:40, michael wrote:
> i would like to see some packages (namely the kde ones) seperated into
> smaller ones so that you could install just kghostview or just kmail or
> some other major program (with the right kde dependencies) without say
> having to install a whole package like kdegraphics which contains a
> bunch of stuff i dont need.
> maybe there are some options i just need to change to do this. enlighten
> me.
>
The other part of the answer: if you want to do it now, do this for package 
foo;
* ebuild foo-x.y.ebuild unpack
* edit /var/tmp/portage/foo-x.y/work/foo-x.y/subdirs and remove what you don't 
like
* ebuild foo-x.y.ebuild compile install qmerge

-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel