Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/24/2010 07:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> >>> On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >>>>> On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >>>>>> I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer
> >>>>>> important to me.  I have remained out of pure inertia.
> >>>>>> I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu.  All I need
> >>>>>> from any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for
> >>>>>> multiple desktops.
> >>>>>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation
> >>>>>> toolchains or in a browser.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from
> >>>>>> running out of disk space.  A little research showed that an
> >>>>>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in
> >>>>>> some dotfiles.  It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is.
> >>>>>>  I've got a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was
> >>>>>> never near full before.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf.  emerge -auDN world.
> >>>>> emerge -a --depclean.  That should do it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the
> >>>> semantic-desktop use flag set?
> >>>
> >>> For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn
> >>> off the services after installing them.
> >>>
> >>> Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment,
> >>> he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk
> >>> space.
> >>
> >> How do you know what he needs?  He probably wants KDE but without the
> >> whole "Semantic Desktop" thingy.
> >
> > he wrote:
> >> Thanks.  My having research work with a few hundred thousand small files
> >
> > and a couple of terrabytes of storage and backups could account for the
> > size.  Some occasional sluggishness too.  It makes no sense to index any
> > of this, so ditching it feels good.
> >
> > and semantic-desktop was developed to help people with such workloads.
>
> I don't understand your reply or what it answers.

because you haven't read the thread before you wrote your email?