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On Wednesday 20 August 2008 19:48:30 James wrote: |
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> I have mostly the small MM packages on these system, but the one |
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> that will update only have one difference that I can find, that is |
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> no 'artsplugin-xine'. |
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> Is this possible; to just remove artsplugin-xine Even though |
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> Kde-meta 3.5.9 is installed? A good idea? |
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kde3* and kde4* both work just fine without arts - I have run my machines like |
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that for years now. arts was nothing more than an utter piece of total |
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excrement that never worked properly, the design is buggy, and it causes huge |
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problems with non-kde apps that want to use sound. alsa does all that arts |
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ever did and more. |
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Put "USE=-arts" in make.conf, remove all custom arts flags from package.use |
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and remove everything with arts in it's name from world. Then run --depclean |
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followed by the usual revdep-rebuild |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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