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lordbelial
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 Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:30 am Post subject: Streamlinig KDE |
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I'm currently running Gentoo w/ KDE after throwing Gentoo on one day after I was bored. I want to format and reinstall Gentoo doing things with a little more thought. The first time I installed KDE I simply did:
But I found that it installs a whole bunch of stuff that I never use.
Of the following:
kdeaccessibility Accessibility related programs
kdebase Base KDE packages and necessities
kdeaddons Miscellaneous older/obsoleted KDE tools
kdeadmin Administrative KDE tools
kdeartwork Nice art themes for KDE
kdeedu Educational KDE tools
kdegames KDE games
kdegraphics KDE graphical art tools
kdemultimedia Multimedia players/framework for KDE
kdenetwork Network-related tools for KDE
kdepim KDE PIM tools, calendars, desktop notes etc.
kdesdk Code development tools
kdetoys Amusement tools for the KDE desktop
kdeutils Graphical system utilities
kde-i18n i18n language files - see note
Which would you recommend or which ones do I have to install?. I was thinking of only doing kdebase, kdeadmin, kdeartwork, kdenetwork, and kdeutils.
Do I need kde-i18n? If I dont install it will it default to english? Do I have to install kdemultimedia if I want to listen to MP3's, watch videos? (I never used any of the multimedia programs that came with KDE)
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drescherjm
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With gentoo you absolutly do not have to reformat and start over. Just emerge -C any package you want to remove. BTW, I believe kdebase is necissary.
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GenKreton
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| You can further streamline kde by using the DO_NOT_COMPILE use flag, so you get only what you need in those packages. |
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00tux
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I was wondering the same thing, great thread guys. I choose gentoo as my next distro too try because I dont want 4 web browsers 6 graphical text editors and 15 audio players that ship with the major distros.
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