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Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: |
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> > Is there an easy way to remove all of the kde packages before |
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> > migration to kde-meta? |
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> See the thread form a couple of hours ago, |
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Awe, yes, Gmane runs very slow during the day (EST), |
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I see this recent discussion. |
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> I think you have misunderstood the purpose of the meta packages. They are |
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> simply empty packages that depend on various other packages. The old kde |
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> package was a meta-package that depended on the various monolithic |
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> builds, now there is a meta-package to replace each of the monolithic |
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> builds that depends on the split packages. kde-meta depend on all the |
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> split ebuilds. |
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Yep, this explains quite a lot..... |
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> > Comments and Recommendations on kde-meta's future? |
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> The meta-packages won't be going away, they are even more important with |
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> the split ebuilds. they aren't exclusive to KDE either; gnome, |
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> gnome-light and xorg-x11-7* are all meta packages. |
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Thanks for the information, this clears things up for me.... |
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James |
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