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On Tuesday 18 November 2008 08:14:02 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I've decided to stop using KDE after yrs of use... given that gentoo |
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> compiles everything from scratch, its just getting to much time lost |
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> jacking around with kde during upgrades. |
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> But also I'd forgotten what the oldtime linux desktops were like. |
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> fvwm was the main one in use when I started circa 1997. |
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> I see blackbox is even a bit more stark... but since I am mainly |
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> command line oriented it doesn't present a problem. |
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> But cutting to the chase here, I'm getting rid of KDE but I see |
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> kde-base/arts shows lots of dependencies. Even now that I've changed |
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> my USE flag `kde' to `-kde' |
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remove arts and any other kde-related flags from USE and package.use. Unmerge |
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arts, continue |
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arts is only used in kde, it's a piece of utter trash and totally not needed - |
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everything it ever did can now be done by alsa. |
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> qdepends -C kde-base/arts|awk '{gsub(/ /,"\n");print}' |
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> kde-base/arts-3.5.10: |
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> x11-libs/qt:3 |
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> >=dev-libs/glib-2 |
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> media-libs/alsa-lib |
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> media-libs/libogg |
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> media-libs/libvorbis |
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> media-sound/esound |
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> media-libs/libmad |
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> media-libs/audiofile |
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> dev-util/pkgconfig |
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> =sys-devel/automake-1.9* |
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> >=sys-devel/autoconf-2.61 |
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> sys-devel/libtool |
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> sys-devel/make |
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> dev-util/pkgconfig |
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> dev-lang/perl |
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> I'm pretty sure at least some of this doesn't actually depend on |
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> kde-base/arts but not quite sure what to make of the output. |
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You have it the wrong way round. Those packages do not depend on arts, instead |
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arts depends on them. They are needed to either run or to build arts. |
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Don't worry about it. portage knows how to build anything that's missing after |
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you are done cleaning up |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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