Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> That's what I thought until I moved to the kde profile, at which time
> it seems to about 80% of kde-meta became part of @system. Prior to
> switching to that profile I think @system as about 150 packages. Today
> it's 389:
>
> 2stable ~ # emerge -epv @system
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5-r2  475 kB
> [ebuild   R    ] virtual/libintl-0  0 kB
> <SNIP>
> [ebuild   R    ] kde-base/kdesu-4.6.2  USE="handbook (-aqua) -debug
> (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix)" 0 kB
> [ebuild   R    ] kde-misc/polkit-kde-kcmodules-0.98_pre20101127
> USE="(-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal)" 0 kB
> [ebuild   R    ] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.6.2  USE="(-aqua) -debug
> (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix)" 0 kB
>
> Total: 389 packages (9 new, 380 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 308,431 kB
> c2stable ~ #
>
> My thought at this point is that WRT @system the devs are doing
> something magic with Gentoo, taking it in some new direction which I
> don't understand yet, and because of that I'm likely to be confused
> for some time to come. The idea of a virtual seems very reasonable to
> me, but somehow it seems the implementation of it all just isn't as
> clear to me as it should be, and the onus is on me to go learn and not
> the devs to teach me.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>

I complained about KDE stuff being in the system set looooong ago.  It 
is because of USE flags that they are being pulled in.  I don't like the 
idea but if you, or a dev, disables all the USE flags that pulls in KDE, 
us KDE users are going to have things breaking left and right.  It 
seemed to have gotten worse when hal bit the dust.  At that point udev 
and other system tools picked up the slack and KDE got pulled into 
system.  That's my theory at least.

Dale

:-)  :-)