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On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: |
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> Well, I disagree. I want to install almost all of the KDE stuff, |
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> but eg. not the PPP things, as I've got not use for that on that |
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> system. But I still would like my world file *NOT* to be cluttered |
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> with a gazillion of kde packages. |
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> The current system absolutely does not handle that just fine. |
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Hmmm, well that's mostly just too bad. |
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The devs built the ebuilds to work the way the work because that's the |
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sanest approach when your universe is all the users that there are. |
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You are perfectly free to copy those ebuilds to your local overlay, wrap |
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the DEPENDs in USE checks to give you the behaviour you want. Then you |
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can publish them to your website and supply instructions for interested |
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users to add them to layman. Then anyone that wants what you want can |
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get it off you. Good way to get a taste of what it takes to maintain |
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ebuilds for a huge task like KDE (I do it for e17. It's a ball-ache |
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sometimes). |
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But the portage tree builds are never going to do what you are asking. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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