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On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 25/01/18 02:28, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:16:07 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>> One user wants Gnome, the other wants Plasma. Is this doable? |
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>>>> Currently, Plasma is installed, and the profile is: |
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>>>> default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd |
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>>>> The profiles seem to be either-or. There's one for plasma, one for |
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>>>> gnome. But I need both now :-/ |
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>>> The differences between the profiles are mainly the USE flags set. As |
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>>> your system is already built with the plasma profiles, I'd add gnome to |
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>>> your USE flags and emerge gnome-base/gnome. Portage will shout at you if |
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>>> you need to enable any other USE flags. |
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>> Don't know. There's use flags that seem to be set because it's |
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>> recommended to set them, not because they're needed. |
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>> It seems to me that I have to choose either-or here in order to have a |
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>> well working desktop. Otherwise, if something doesn't seem work right, |
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>> I'll never know whether it's because of the profile or because of |
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>> something else. |
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>> I suppose I have to switch to the gnome profile and then see if KDE is |
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>> still working as before. But it seems I'll have to manually replicate |
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>> whatever the plasma profile is setting by hand. |
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> This is what I would do. I would make sure emerge -uDNp world comes |
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> back clean, no remerges or updates. Change profile to generic desktop. |
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> Do a emerge -DNp world and look at what changes, especially USE flags. |
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> Take those changes and set them in make.conf or package.use if you |
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> prefer. Since both KDE and Gnome has their own desktop profile, using |
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> the generic profile I think would be the best bet. You just may have to |
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> set some things in make.conf/package.use to add KDE and Gnome settings |
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> to have both installed at the same time. |
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Yes, this works and I've done it, which is why I recommended it. |
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Cheers, |
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R0b0t1 |
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