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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:40:41
Message-Id: BANLkTik01NO69s_UBQd8RQZxxW3ZJABF_A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean by Dale
1 On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >>
4 >> That's what I thought until I moved to the kde profile, at which time
5 >> it seems to about 80% of kde-meta became part of @system.
6 <SNIP>
7 >
8 > I complained about KDE stuff being in the system set looooong ago.  It is
9 > because of USE flags that they are being pulled in.  I don't like the idea
10 > but if you, or a dev, disables all the USE flags that pulls in KDE, us KDE
11 > users are going to have things breaking left and right.  It seemed to have
12 > gotten worse when hal bit the dust.  At that point udev and other system
13 > tools picked up the slack and KDE got pulled into system.  That's my theory
14 > at least.
15
16 I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute
17 server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember.
18
19 - Mark

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>