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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:43:31
Message-Id: 20070618203605.4872ec50@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages by Alan McKinnon
1 Hello Alan McKinnon,
2
3 > 'emerge *-meta' is fine if one wants everything, or 'emerge kopete
4 > kmail konqueror' if you just want a few bits like me, but there's this
5 > large no-man's land in the middle where it is just unweildy. No fault
6 > of Gentoo, it's all KDEs fault for having 300+ distinct apps/code
7 > bodies :-)
8
9 But you don't need all of them in world, many are only installed as
10 dependencies of other packages. I have most of KDE installed here, yet
11 only 67 kde-base packages in world. You could reduce that sill further
12 by using more than the two meta packages I currently have.
13
14
15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Q: Why do PCs - even modern ones - have reset buttons on the front?
19 A: Because they come with Microsoft operating systems.

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