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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] do I need plasma-meta to use KDE ?
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:22:58
Message-Id: 4676779.9qC9QXy759@peak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] do I need plasma-meta to use KDE ? by Philip Webb
1 On Friday, 7 December 2018 15:11:21 GMT Philip Webb wrote:
2 > I've just updated all my installed pkgs ( c 112 ) for KDE
3 > (apps frameworks plasma), except for 'plasma-meta',
4 > which raises an error :
5 >
6 > Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
7 > installed at the same time on the same system.
8 >
9 > (gnome-base/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1:3/3::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
10 > gnome-base/gnome-common:3 required by
11 > (sys-fs/udisks-2.7.4-r1:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
12 >
13 > (sys-devel/autoconf-archive-2018.03.13:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
14 > merge) pulled in by sys-devel/autoconf-archive required by
15 > (sys-fs/udisks-2.7.4-r1:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
16 > sys-devel/autoconf-archive required by
17 > (sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.145-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
18 >
19 > None of the pkgs in the error msg are needed by anything outside kde-plasma.
20 >
21 > Before I reboot & risk failure of KDE to start,
22 > can anyone advise me whether I need kde-plasma in order to use KDE ?
23
24 You don't need any meta packages to have a working plasma desktop. The "Why
25 vulkan" and "Plasma sound devices" threads above were about this. My system
26 now has several dozen fewer packages than it had.
27
28 The way I did it was to emerge --deselect the highest-level meta package,
29 emerge -c and note what I'd have to put back in later. Then the next meta
30 package, and so on until they'd all gone. Don't forget to quickpkg the system
31 if you don't have packages already.
32
33 Then I defined three sets under /etc/portage/sets; I've attached a file
34 listing their kde entries; of course your list will differ but you can see the
35 idea.
36
37 A word for those of a nervous disposition: all this work feels like an
38 adventure, not to be undertaken lightly, but a modicum of common sense and
39 availability of backups should see you through. No guarantees, though. :)
40
41 --
42 Regards,
43 Peter.

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