Re: [gentoo-user] I'm trying to emerge polkit, now it wants to bring in all of KDE

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>         Just what is happening with ebuilds today? At work, I'm in the process
> of setting up a workstation using the KDE profile. I've gone to the KDE
> install doco on the wiki, http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE, had a read
> and it says that I'll need D-Bus, polkit, udev and udisks. I can emerge
> D-Bus with no problems then onto polkit which its wiki says needs D-Bus
> and consolekit.
>
>         So I attempt to install consolekit and bingo, there's the avalanche.
> Perl crap everywhere, Samba, MySQL & MariaDB, and I don't even use
> either of these DB's, a battle between LibAV and FFMPEG, what looks like
> all of KDE and oh look, there's vlc along for the ride. Even zlib
> decides it wants to come along but manages to block itself. That many
> files want to come along to the party that I can't "Shift PgUp" back up
> through my text console to see it all - a text console because I don't
> have any graphics installed yet.
>
>         I had a look at the consolekit ebuild and it says that it needs polkit,
> even though the wiki says that polkit depends upon consolekit - going
> round in circles here. So I looked at the polkit ebuild and it looks
> like it needs polkit-kde-agent, which to my untrained eye, probably is
> responsible for this avalanche os stuff - I think....
>
>         So what do I have to do to not have this avalanche of stuff, so that I
> can emerge pieces bit by bit, so that I can see what's happening. I've
> probably got some of the above slightly wrong, "lost in translation"
> going from work to home, but "the vibe" is there. It is so frustrating
> when you sit there and see a massive list of packages, a good proportion
> I don't even want, I'm looking at you MySQL/MariaDB - isn't this due to
> the Akonadi mess, scroll up the screen and it makes no sense as to why
> things are being brought in.
>
>         There, I've vented my spleen, any thoughts on how to control this
> "beast" would be greatly appreciated.
>
>         Regards,
>                 Andrew
>

Can you post the output of the command lines shown below:
(1). eselect profile list
(2). emerge --info|grep USE
(3). cat /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
(4). cat /etc/portage/package.use

Is this a brand new setup you're working on, or are you just switching profiles?