| 1 |
On Thursday 21 August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 19:48:30 James wrote: |
| 3 |
> > I have mostly the small MM packages on these system, but the |
| 4 |
> > one that will update only have one difference that I can find, |
| 5 |
> > that is no 'artsplugin-xine'. |
| 6 |
> > |
| 7 |
> > Is this possible; to just remove artsplugin-xine Even though |
| 8 |
> > Kde-meta 3.5.9 is installed? A good idea? |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> kde3* and kde4* both work just fine without arts - I have run my |
| 11 |
> machines like that for years now. arts was nothing more than an |
| 12 |
> utter piece of total excrement that never worked properly, the |
| 13 |
> design is buggy, and it causes huge problems with non-kde apps |
| 14 |
> that want to use sound. alsa does all that arts ever did and |
| 15 |
> more. |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> Put "USE=-arts" in make.conf, remove all custom arts flags from |
| 18 |
> package.use and remove everything with arts in it's name from |
| 19 |
> world. Then run --depclean followed by the usual revdep-rebuild |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
Instead of running emerge --depclean, better IMHO is: |
| 22 |
emerge --update --newuse --deep --oneshot @system @world -vat, |
| 23 |
followed by |
| 24 |
emerge -C arts and emerge @preserved-rebuild if necessary. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
-- |
| 27 |
Peter |
| 28 |
======================================================================== |
| 29 |
Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc8 kernel-2.6.25-gentoo-r6 |
| 30 |
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ gcc(GCC): 4.1.2 |
| 31 |
KDE: 3.5.9 Qt: 3.3.8 |
| 32 |
======================================================================== |
Archives