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Hi all, |
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Perhaps the oldest request of Gentoo KDE is to have individual ebuilds for all |
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KDE apps - konqueror, kmail etc. Most people will probably never use over |
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half the stuff 'emerge kde' installs, and it's hardly Gentooish to force it |
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on them. |
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I've spent the last few years pointing out to various people why this couldn't |
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be done (well). Eventually I got really tired, so we did it. |
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So without further ado, I point you to http://kde-metaebuilds.berlios.de/ and |
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the more detailed explanations there. Brought to you by Simone Gotti |
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<motaboy@g.o> and yours truly. |
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*** Current status: early beta. Works For Us (tm). DO NOT send bugreports to |
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*.gentoo.org - join the mailing list at berlios.de. *** |
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For everyone who's still reading... |
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You probably remember me saying this wouldn't be done because an 'emerge |
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kde-meta' would take a few hours longer than a classic 'emerge kde'. This is |
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true. So I refer you to http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/ where you'll find |
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the experimental confcache patch to portage, which virtually eliminates the |
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overhead of running configure for every tiny ebuild. |
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However, while the ebuilds are in early beta, confcache is in late alpha. A |
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few known (non-dangerous) problems exist. So if you use it, be sure of what |
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you're doing. I'd also like to ask anyone and everyone to help make confcache |
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better... |
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I release when ready. And what this's ready for is a lot of testing, rather |
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than a lot of production use :-) But there are no known issues (with the |
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ebuilds), so please go ahead and use them. |
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Eventually, esp. if and when confcache goes stable and is added to portage, |
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these ebuilds can make their way into portage also. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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