| 1 |
On Monday, 24 June 2019 21:40:07 BST Mick wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> According to the current wiki page these days the kde-meta has been |
| 4 |
> replaced with plasma-meta. This is how I have configured plasma-meta: |
| 5 |
> |
| 6 |
> Installed versions: 5.15.5(5)(12:58:00 14/06/19)(bluetooth browser- |
| 7 |
> integration crypt desktop-portal display-manager elogind handbook legacy- |
| 8 |
> systray pam pm-utils sddm wallpapers -consolekit -discover -grub -gtk - |
| 9 |
> networkmanager -plymouth -pulseaudio -sdk -systemd) |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
> BUT ... I am thinking of uninstalling it, deplclean-ing my world and |
| 12 |
> installing kde-plasma/plasma-desktop which is the slim version, while |
| 13 |
> keeping some select kde-meta packages I need/want. |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
I made quite a determined attempt to do that on this system. I would uninstall |
| 16 |
a meta package, then see what packages would be removed by emerge -c, and |
| 17 |
emerge --noreplace any that I wanted to keep. Sounds simple, eh? Not so. I |
| 18 |
soon found myself mired in loops and contradictory dependencies which I |
| 19 |
couldn't escape. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
I ended up reinstalling from scratch, avoiding as many meta-packages as I |
| 22 |
could. I tried to build on kde-plasma/plasma-desktop, but it was simply too |
| 23 |
basic. I spent a long time trying to find packages to restore what I was used |
| 24 |
to in kde-plasma, but I concluded that it would need the knowledge of a kde |
| 25 |
packager. |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
So I do still have five meta-packages. Ho hum. |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
I don't want to warn you off altogether, but at least be ready for some tricky |
| 30 |
work. Lots of it! |
| 31 |
|
| 32 |
-- |
| 33 |
Regards, |
| 34 |
Peter. |
Archives