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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:08:02 -0500 |
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Caleb Tennis <caleb@g.o> wrote: |
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> I don't know how Gnome is set up, but all you need for a KDE installation |
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> is to emerge kde-base/kdebase. It will pull down arts, kdelibs, and any |
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> other system lib dependencies you don't already have. The dependencies in |
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> these builds are relatively minor. If you don't already have Qt it will |
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> pull that in as well (rather large). |
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> I don't see how this can be construed as "too many dependencies". On my |
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> P4-2200 this whole process takes about 2 hours. Before high speed |
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> broadband, it used to take me that long just to download the source code. |
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> Now, if you start installing all of the other *optional* kde packages |
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> (games, multimedia, ..) it will increase your installation time 5 fold. |
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> Caleb |
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I suppose optional is open to interpretation..but I was looking here- |
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http://www.kde.org/download/ and what shows there is what the kde people |
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consider a full installation, and the only prerequisite is qt, of course. |
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Mike has already pointed out a couple of problems that could be improved,and |
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in true vanilla fashion `emerge kde` should pull no more then whats listed |
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at their site. I applaud your good fortune in having a fast cpu and |
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connection, whereas my k6-2 500 and 56k connection find this mildly |
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annoying. I think the fast cpu/fast connection has maybe jaded some devs |
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because while it costs "relatively minor" time at their end, it increases |
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5x at the low end. I would be happy to prvide a USE free list of packages to |
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be emerged if that would help:) This rant was merely aimed at the number of |
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deps Gentoo calls for vs. the number the vanilla source calls for. |
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Chuck Brewer |
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