Re: [gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Sunday 19 November 2006 16:25, Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades':
> 061119 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Now I'm faced with the updates that came out this week
> > and I'd like to unmerge the many parts of KDE I will never use.
> > Would it be better to remove all but the obvious keepers?
>
> You need  3  things :
>
>   kdelibs

This doesn't have to be in your world file because it will be pulled in as 
a dependency of applications that require those libraries.

>   kdebase-startkde (which emerges  16  other pkgs first)

Yes, this is a really easy one to miss, but it provides some fairly 
essential scripts.  It's certainly possible to run "KDE" without it, by 
writing your own scripts, but that's almost getting to the point where 
your are running KDE application in your own custom desktop environment.

Of course, it's fairly arbitrary where the line is between just running KDE 
applications and running "KDE".  Certainly you are running "KDE" if you 
are running it as defined by upstream (kdelibs, kdebase, kdegames, kdepim, 
etc.; the whole #!) which is achieved in Gentoo by emerging kde-meta 
(modular) or kde (monolithic).  Also, I doubt anyone would say you are 
running KDE if you have amaroK in your Gnome session, even if you are 
using kwin as your window manager.  There's a lot of middle ground though.

> So start by unmerging everything, then merge 3.5.5 as above.

No need to unmerge first. 1) edit your world file, 2) emerge -n anything 
want to keep, 3) emerge -a --depclean.

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