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Whoops, big mistake on my part. I misread the threading of the original |
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email and credited the idea to Alan Mc Kinnon. The credit should go to |
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Rich Freeman. |
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Sorry Rich, |
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Andrew |
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On 10/10/2015 06:56 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> On 10/03/2015 06:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On 02/10/2015 05:31, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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>>>> Hi all, |
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>>>> I'm getting disillusioned with the direction KDE is taking, with |
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>>>> respect to forcing users to use things they don't want to. The semantic |
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>>>> desktop, or whatever they are now calling bits and pieces of it, is one |
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>>>> thing that comes immediately to mind. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Anyway, I've decided to move on and am thinking of going to lxqt. The |
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>>>> problem is that I'm used to several KDE apps, kwooty, kwrite and a few |
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>>>> more. Is it possible to run something such as lxqt and then emerge in |
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>>>> kde apps where it will bring in just a few kde libraries, which I can |
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>>>> live with, but not the whole desktop environment? |
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>>> Yes. Remove all of KDE then emerge back in the apps you want, they have |
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>>> deps on the libs they need. Whatever they pull in is required. |
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>> It is easier than that. |
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>> Edit your /var/lib/portage/world |
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>> Remove anything kde-related you're not explicitly interested in, such |
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>> as kde-meta |
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>> Add anything you are explicitly interested in, such as kwooty or kwrite |
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>> Add kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta |
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>> Then run emerge --depclean and watch all the other stuff go away. |
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>> No need to purge yourself of stuff like kdelibs that takes a long time |
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>> to rebuild just to add it back. Let the dependency manager help you |
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>> out for a change. :) |
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>> I'm not even certain you need to explicitly add kdebase-runtime-meta - |
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>> other packages might pull that in on their own but I'm not certain of |
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>> that. Run a --depclean -p first and see what portage wants to get rid |
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>> of before going that route. Software may-or-may not work correctly |
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>> without that virtual installed and your bugs will be closed as |
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>> invalid. That virtual is intended to be a somewhat-minimalist one for |
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>> situations like yours, but kde applications still will tend to pull a |
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>> lot of stuff in. |
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> Closing my original question, I followed Alan's advice, fiddled the |
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> world file, and whilst not exactly "hey presto", a few emerge's, some |
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> hand manipulation of a few files and eventually it worked. |
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> It's a bit of a jump, I'd become quite used to Dolphin and whilst |
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> pcmanfm likes to think of itself as a dolphin replacement, it's a long |
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> long way from being so. There is no autohide of the task bar, no |
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> slideshow wallpaper option, I still can't work out automounting of usb's |
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> and plenty more to keep you on your toes. |
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> So thanks for all of your suggestions. |
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> Andrew |
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