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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:11:15
Message-Id: 4B855815.30102@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here! by Nikos Chantziaras
1 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
2 > On 02/24/2010 06:03 PM, Dale wrote:
3 >> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
4 >>> Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010 15:12:58 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
5 >>>> On 02/24/2010 03:41 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
6 >>>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
7 >>>>>> On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
8 >>>>>>> I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer
9 >>>>>>> important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia.
10 >>>>>>> I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. All I need
11 >>>>>>> from any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for
12 >>>>>>> multiple desktops.
13 >>>>>>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation
14 >>>>>>> toolchains or in a browser.
15 >>>>>>>
16 >>>>>>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from
17 >>>>>>> running out of disk space. A little research showed that an
18 >>>>>>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in
19 >>>>>>> some
20 >>>>>>> dotfiles. It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is. I've
21 >>>>>>> got a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never
22 >>>>>>> near full before.
23 >>>>>> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. emerge -auDN world.
24 >>>>>> emerge
25 >>>>>> -a --depclean. That should do it.
26 >>>>> Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the
27 >>>>> semantic-desktop use flag set?
28 >>>> Don't know, never happened here.
29 >>>>
30 >>> Just tried it, and the following apps are being recompiled right now:
31 >>>
32 >>> [ebuild R ] kde-base/pykde4-4.3.5-r1 USE="-semantic-desktop*"
33 >>> [ebuild R ] kde-base/gwenview-4.3.5 USE="-semantic-desktop*"
34 >>> [ebuild R ] kde-base/akonadi-4.3.5 USE="-semantic-desktop*"
35 >>> [ebuild R ] net-wireless/kbluetooth-0.4.2 USE="-semantic-desktop*"
36 >>> [ebuild R ] kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.3.5 USE="-semantic-desktop*"
37 >>> [ebuild R ] kde-base/dolphin-4.3.5 USE="-semantic-desktop*"
38 >>> [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdebase-runtime-meta-4.3.5
39 >>> USE="-semantic-desktop*"
40 >>> [ebuild R ] kde-base/kmail-4.3.5 USE="-semantic-desktop*"
41 >>> [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdeplasma-addons-4.3.5 USE="-semantic-desktop*"
42 >>>
43 >>> Let's see if it works.
44 >>>
45 >>>
46 >>
47 >> I seem to recall that I had to enable this for some updates recently.
48 >> Something wouldn't compile without the USE flag being set. I don't think
49 >> I need the thing either so if this works now, I may change mine and try
50 >> it too. Also, I use the kde-meta package which may make a difference.
51 >
52 > KMail from KDE 4.4 needs it. KMail from KDE 4.3 doesn't.
53 >
54 >
55
56 Since kde-meta would pull in Kmail, that could be the problem for me.
57 If you folks are doing yours the manual way, you may can get away with
58 it. I suspect that some other packages will pull it in as KDE develops
59 tho. After all, KDE 4 has a LOT of eye candy to it. Sort of like
60 winders actually. ;-)
61
62 Dale
63
64 :-) :-)

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[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here! Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>