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On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:48:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:30:04 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: |
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> > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:37 Dale wrote: |
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> > > Maybe we have something different then. I don't have |
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> > > blas-reference on here anymore either. My point was, disabling |
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> > > fortran to remove it only lead to other stuff being required. |
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> > > I think there is more on here now than there was before. So, |
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> > > removing fortran to get rid of bloat didn't help any because it |
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> > > just required a different set of bloat. |
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> > |
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> > Maybe it's time to make a backup, then remove all USE flags from |
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> > make.conf and package.use, set your profile to |
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> > default/linux/<arch>/10.0/desktop/kde and rebuild. Alan and Neil's |
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> > idea of a set of the meta-packages you want sounds good to me too. |
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> > Then you'll really have a clean system. |
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> You will have whatever system the profile maintainer thinks the |
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> average user should have, bloated to whatever degree said maintainer |
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> thinks is a good idea. |
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Yes, of course. My point is that you can forget about maintaining all those |
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USE flags yourself. |
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> No USE flags set does not mean no options set, it means default. And |
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> default sets plenty flags ON |
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> > I may follow suit - I built this system with kde-meta for |
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> > simplicity, but of course it now has a lot of stuff I don't want, |
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> > including Fortran. I tried rebuilding with -fortran as I said a few |
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> > minutes ago, but portage wanted ifc instead. |
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> kde-meta gives you all the stuff that's useful on the average system, |
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> plus all of accessibility, kdebindings, kdeedu, games, the sdk, toys |
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> and maybe even webdev. |
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I know, and I used to take the time to find all the things I did want and |
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just install those. I used kde-meta this once just from laziness. Now I get |
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to keep the whole hog-roast. |
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> I can't think of the kind of user that truly does actually need all of |
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> that. |
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Me neither. So maybe the time's approaching when I go and slim the whole |
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shebang down. It'll have to wait until I've finished the current round of |
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redesign of my website though. 177 pages to modify - that should keep me off |
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the street corners for a while. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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