I dont want kde?

garethed · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Wales UK

I installed X and Gnome, don't have KDE in my use flag but when I merge packages, aften it downloads and compiles kde things suchs as:

kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.1.2.ebuild

any ideas, because if I don't need these surely emerging packages will be much quicker.

Ecniv · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 35 Location: Orlando, FL

Some packages are made to run in KDE i believe and therefore require kde libs.

I may be wrong, im just a n00b. :lol:

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joycea · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:33 pm Post subject:

You are emerging just the libraries needed to run KDE applications, not KDE itself. It means that you are compiling something that uses the KDE libraries.

lazarusrat · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:34 pm Post subject:

Don't just leave kde out of your USE variables, put -kde in.
Even then, if the package you're emerging requires kde stuff (e.g. kdelibs), it's going to install them anyway. Or if you're emerging something that requires something that requires kdelibs. Etc. etc. down the line.

wjr · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:57 pm Post subject:

Some programmes like Quanta (HTML editor) for instance will depend on kde. To see whether a program will try to install kdelibs etc, run:

garethed · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Wales UK

Thanks guys, it was lincvs causing all the downloads. It was taking hours, I had to stop it because I was in work and it was time to leave.

To be honest I've been a bit lazy with reading the documentation. I need to print out a few of the manuals.

amd · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 5:50 pm Post subject:

better use