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From: Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@×××××××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:02:28
Message-Id: 1324459621.13355.0@bluering
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE by Joseph
1 On 18:47:32 21/12/2011, Joseph wrote:
2 > On 12/21/11 02:11, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:54:38PM -0700, Joseph wrote
4 >>> I have a problem getting rid of KDE (those meta package might be
5 >>> easy to install/upgrade but getting rid of them is not easy).
6 >>
7 >>> When I run emerge -uDNav world I get:
8 >>>
9 >>> =x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.7.2 kde
10 >>>
11 >>> =x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.7.2 kde
12 >>>
13 >>> My USE flags:
14 >>> USE="X gtk -qt4 -kde dvd alsa cdr cups apache2 ssl foomaticdb \
15 >>> ppds mysql -acl java tiff jpeg png usb udev scanner fam
16 >>> nptl truetype kpathsea type1 opengl tetex -arts hal dbus
17 >>> semantic-desktop "
18 >>>
19 >>> It is trying to pull IN some KDE packages as well, I don't know
20 >>> where package is pulling them?
21 >>
22 >> Check your /etc/portage/package.use file. Does it have kde flags
23 >> anywhere in it? If so, you'll need to get rid of them to eradicate
24 >> kde.
25 >>
26 >>--
27 >> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
28 >
29 > "equery d" does not show any package depending on kde, qt3 or qt4
30 >
31 > That KDE is is lika a cockroach, it is hard to get rid of it :-/
32
33
34 Have you checked your profile?
35
36 Run "eselect profile list" and make sure you don't have the
37 "desktop/kde"
38 profile slected. Although I would have thought that the profile would
39 try
40 to pull in a lot more of KDE than you have shown.
41
42
43 --
44 Paul Colquhoun

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Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of KDE Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>