Re: [gentoo-user] Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment

[Rich Freeman]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/2015 05:31, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>       I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking, with
>> respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. The semantic
>> desktop, or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of it, is one
>> thing that comes immediately to mind.
>>
>>       Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. The
>> problem is that I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few
>> more. Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge in
>> kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, which I can
>> live with, but not the whole desktop environment?
>
> Yes. Remove all of KDE then emerge back in the apps you want, they have
> deps on the libs they need. Whatever they pull in is required.

It is easier than that.

Edit your /var/lib/portage/world
Remove anything kde-related you're not explicitly interested in, such
as kde-meta
Add anything you are explicitly interested in, such as kwooty or kwrite
Add kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta

Then run emerge --depclean and watch all the other stuff go away.

No need to purge yourself of stuff like kdelibs that takes a long time
to rebuild just to add it back.  Let the dependency manager help you
out for a change.  :)

I'm not even certain you need to explicitly add kdebase-runtime-meta -
other packages might pull that in on their own but I'm not certain of
that.  Run a --depclean -p first and see what portage wants to get rid
of before going that route.  Software may-or-may not work correctly
without that virtual installed and your bugs will be closed as
invalid.  That virtual is intended to be a somewhat-minimalist one for
situations like yours, but kde applications still will tend to pull a
lot of stuff in.

-- 
Rich