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On Saturday, 26 June 2021 08:19:24 BST Wols Lists wrote: |
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> On 26/06/21 00:51, Michael wrote: |
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> > Given your error, you appear to not have installed the requisite packages |
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> > for the Plasma/KDE. It should have been installed as a dependency of |
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> > plasma-workspace: |
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> Ah. Another piece of missing information ... I'll try that. I would have |
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> thought that would have been pulled in seeing as I've got wayland and qt |
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> use flags etc |
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> > $ qfile startplasma-wayland |
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> > kde-plasma/plasma-workspace: /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland |
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I am not clear on your particular use case(s). Plasma desktop is usually |
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installed by setting the appropriate make.profile: |
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$ eselect profile list |
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Available profile symlink targets: |
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[1] default/linux/amd64/17.1 (stable) |
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[2] default/linux/amd64/17.1/selinux (stable) |
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[3] default/linux/amd64/17.1/hardened (stable) |
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[4] default/linux/amd64/17.1/hardened/selinux (stable) |
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[5] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (stable) |
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[6] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome (stable) |
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[7] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd (stable) |
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[8] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma (stable) * |
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[9] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd (stable) |
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[10] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/systemd (stable) |
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[11] default/linux/amd64/17.1/developer (stable) |
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[12] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (stable) |
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[13] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/hardened (stable) |
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[14] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/hardened/selinux (stable) |
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[15] default/linux/amd64/17.1/systemd (stable) |
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[16] default/linux/amd64/17.0 (dev) |
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[17] default/linux/amd64/17.0/selinux (dev) |
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[18] default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened (dev) |
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[19] default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened/selinux (dev) |
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[20] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop (dev) |
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[21] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome (dev) |
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[22] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome/systemd (dev) |
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[23] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma (dev) |
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[24] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd (dev) |
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[25] default/linux/amd64/17.0/developer (dev) |
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[26] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib (dev) |
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[27] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened (dev) |
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[28] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened/selinux (dev) |
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[29] default/linux/amd64/17.0/systemd (dev) |
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[30] default/linux/amd64/17.0/x32 (dev) |
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[31] default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl (exp) |
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[32] default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl/hardened (exp) |
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[33] default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl/hardened/selinux (exp) |
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[34] default/linux/amd64/17.0/uclibc (exp) |
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[35] default/linux/amd64/17.0/uclibc/hardened (exp) |
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If you are looking for some minimalist desktop, a Plasma DE plus KDE |
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applications with hundred of dependencies is probably not what you want. |
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Also, I think Plasma DE and most DMs will pull in X11, because: a) they work |
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both with X11 and wayland; b) many X11 applications can only run in X using |
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XWayland. XWayland is an X Server running as a Wayland client to enable |
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displaying native X11 client applications within a Wayland compositor |
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environment. I haven't looked into it at any depth to see if you can strip a |
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heavy DE like Plasma from all xserver dependencies - I'd guess you can't. |
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> > If you have Gnome already installed then you can use the stanza for gnome- |
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> > session instead. |
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> My use flags also contain -gtk -gnome ... gnome at least is on my list |
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> of pet hates ... |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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OK, select the Plasma profile, then have a quick look at: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE |
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You'll need to disable some USE flags of plasma-meta to avoid dragging in |
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things you may not need/require, like 'display-manager', 'sddm', |
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'accessibility', etc. Eventually, after you update @world, add any kde-apps |
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*-meta packages you need. |
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However, if you intend to use wayland for the most minimalist of purposes, |
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then you may want to consider something like Wayfire, instead of Plasma. |
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