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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:08:32
Message-Id: hm3p3j$anm$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here! by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 02/24/2010 07:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
4 >>> On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
5 >>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
6 >>>>> On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
7 >>>>>> I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer
8 >>>>>> important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia.
9 >>>>>> I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. All I need
10 >>>>>> from any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for
11 >>>>>> multiple desktops.
12 >>>>>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation
13 >>>>>> toolchains or in a browser.
14 >>>>>>
15 >>>>>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from
16 >>>>>> running out of disk space. A little research showed that an
17 >>>>>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some
18 >>>>>> dotfiles. It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is. I've
19 >>>>>> got a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never
20 >>>>>> near full before.
21 >>>>>
22 >>>>> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. emerge -auDN world. emerge
23 >>>>> -a --depclean. That should do it.
24 >>>>
25 >>>> Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the
26 >>>> semantic-desktop use flag set?
27 >>>
28 >>> For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn
29 >>> off the services after installing them.
30 >>>
31 >>> Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment,
32 >>> he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk
33 >>> space.
34 >>
35 >> How do you know what he needs? He probably wants KDE but without the
36 >> whole "Semantic Desktop" thingy.
37 >
38 >
39 > he wrote:
40 >
41 >> Thanks. My having research work with a few hundred thousand small files
42 > and a couple of terrabytes of storage and backups could account for the
43 > size. Some occasional sluggishness too. It makes no sense to index any of
44 > this, so ditching it feels good.
45 >
46 > and semantic-desktop was developed to help people with such workloads.
47
48 I don't understand your reply or what it answers.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here! Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>