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On Monday 29 Sep 2014 18:18:06 Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Just what is happening with ebuilds today? At work, I'm in the process |
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> of setting up a workstation using the KDE profile. I've gone to the KDE |
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> install doco on the wiki, http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE, had a read |
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> and it says that I'll need D-Bus, polkit, udev and udisks. I can emerge |
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> D-Bus with no problems then onto polkit which its wiki says needs D-Bus |
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> and consolekit. |
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> |
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> So I attempt to install consolekit and bingo, there's the avalanche. |
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> Perl crap everywhere, Samba, MySQL & MariaDB, and I don't even use |
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> either of these DB's, a battle between LibAV and FFMPEG, what looks like |
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> all of KDE and oh look, there's vlc along for the ride. Even zlib |
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> decides it wants to come along but manages to block itself. That many |
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> files want to come along to the party that I can't "Shift PgUp" back up |
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> through my text console to see it all - a text console because I don't |
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> have any graphics installed yet. |
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> I had a look at the consolekit ebuild and it says that it needs polkit, |
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> even though the wiki says that polkit depends upon consolekit - going |
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> round in circles here. So I looked at the polkit ebuild and it looks |
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> like it needs polkit-kde-agent, which to my untrained eye, probably is |
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> responsible for this avalanche os stuff - I think.... |
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> So what do I have to do to not have this avalanche of stuff, so that I |
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> can emerge pieces bit by bit, so that I can see what's happening. I've |
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> probably got some of the above slightly wrong, "lost in translation" |
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> going from work to home, but "the vibe" is there. It is so frustrating |
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> when you sit there and see a massive list of packages, a good proportion |
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> I don't even want, I'm looking at you MySQL/MariaDB - isn't this due to |
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> the Akonadi mess, scroll up the screen and it makes no sense as to why |
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> things are being brought in. |
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> There, I've vented my spleen, any thoughts on how to control this |
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> "beast" would be greatly appreciated. |
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> Regards, |
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> Andrew |
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I wouldn't try to install dbus, polkit and the like manually. These are all |
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dependencies of KDE. Emerge the KDE apps or meta packages you want and let |
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portage take care of dependencies. |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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