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02-21-2008, 10:58 AM
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 kde use variable question I made the decision recently to no longer use kde as my desktop or window manager. However, I like some of the applications. So, when upgrading to 3.5, I completely removed 3.4.3, and then I cherry-picked the 3.5 applications I wanted and run them happily inside enlightenment. Along the way, I had one problem, with the screensaver rss-glx, which tests for the KDE use variable. When doing emerge -puDv, it wants to bring in kdeartwork and kscreensaver both of which I don't need. I kludged around this by putting both in package.provided. Not the right solution, but A solution. I think the ebuild is bad, and reported a bug, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118504 but it was rejected. The question I have is since I am no longer relying on KDE, do I need the KDE use variable which seems to be set automatically. Could I pud -kde in my make.conf file? Would that hurt the few KDE apps I have or future upgrades for them? All thoughts appreciated.      |
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02-21-2008, 10:58 AM
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| Re: kde use variable question Peter <peter@localhost.com> wrote: > > The question I have is since I am no longer relying on KDE, do I need > the KDE use variable which seems to be set automatically. Could I pud > -kde in my make.conf file? Would that hurt the few KDE apps I have or > future upgrades for them? What -kde will do is remove kde support/linkage/pullins for apps where kde is optional. If you emerge something that *requires* kde, kde will still be pulled in (but it will no longer be announced as available). To see which packages will be affected, and if you have gentoolkit installed, do "equery hasuse kde". If setting -kde in USE, you should rebuild these with --newuse, to have them built without kde dependencies. After doing all this (including the rebuild with --newuse), you might want to do "emerge --pretend --depclean" to see what packages you might now be able to remove. "emerge --depclean" isn't 100% safe, so if you decide to run it, I'd recommend doing "emerge --update --newuse --deep world" and "revdep-rebuild" afterwards, like the WARNING states. Regards, -- *Art |
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02-21-2008, 10:58 AM
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| Re: kde use variable question On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:48:14 -0500, Arthur Hagen wrote: > Peter <peter@localhost.com> wrote: >> >> The question I have is since I am no longer relying on KDE, do I need >> the KDE use variable which seems to be set automatically. Could I pud >> -kde in my make.conf file? Would that hurt the few KDE apps I have or >> future upgrades for them? > > What -kde will do is remove kde support/linkage/pullins for apps where kde > is optional. If you emerge something that *requires* kde, kde will still > be pulled in (but it will no longer be announced as available). > > To see which packages will be affected, and if you have gentoolkit > installed, do "equery hasuse kde". > If setting -kde in USE, you should rebuild these with --newuse, to have > them built without kde dependencies. > > After doing all this (including the rebuild with --newuse), you might want > to do "emerge --pretend --depclean" to see what packages you might now be > able to remove. "emerge --depclean" isn't 100% safe, so if you decide to > run it, I'd recommend doing "emerge --update --newuse --deep world" and > "revdep-rebuild" afterwards, like the WARNING states. > > Regards, Interestingly enough, only the ONE package I cited in the bug report showed up in equery, rss-glx. I grep'ped portage and a handful of apps came up, none of which I use. So, I suppose I can go ahead and put -kde in make.conf safely. Was this documented somewhere? I wish it was. Seems like there are way too many use flags. JMHO. Thanks for the tip. |
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