Re: [gentoo-user] I'm trying to emerge polkit, now it wants to bring in all of KDE

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 01:18:06 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:

> 	Just what is happening with ebuilds today? At work, I'm in the
> process of setting up a workstation using the KDE profile. I've gone to
> the KDE install doco on the wiki, http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE, had
> a read and it says that I'll need D-Bus, polkit, udev and udisks. I can
> emerge D-Bus with no problems then onto polkit which its wiki says
> needs D-Bus and consolekit.
>
> 	So I attempt to install consolekit and bingo, there's the
> avalanche. Perl crap everywhere, Samba, MySQL & MariaDB, and I don't
> even use either of these DB's, a battle between LibAV and FFMPEG, what
> looks like all of KDE and oh look, there's vlc along for the ride. Even
> zlib decides it wants to come along but manages to block itself. That
> many files want to come along to the party that I can't "Shift PgUp"
> back up through my text console to see it all - a text console because
> I don't have any graphics installed yet.

You are using the KDE profile, so you should expect programs emerged
with the kde USE flag to depend on elements of KDE. As others have said,
just emerge the KDE programs or meta-packages you want and let portage
handle everything else.

Alternatively, switch to a standard desktop profile, get X working, then
switch profiles and emerge your KDE packages.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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