How do I slim down KDE?

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

KDE seems to come with a bunch of programs preinstalled that I'll never use. What's the easiest way to get rid of them? Does KDE have an "uninstall manager" so I can pick and choose instead of deleting an entire package groups?

kdwycha · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 2:30 am Post subject:

im sure this wont help you much, but when you emerged kde you should have just "emerge kdebase" and that wouldnt have installed all of the garbage

Xiautau

shm · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:57 am Post subject:

search for DO_NOT_COMPILE
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The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

O.K., well, that doesn't really help me a whole lot because the system has already been compiled. What I want to know is an easy way to remove currently installed software (although with KDE 3.1.4 being released, this may be a moot point as I could just use the DO_NOT_COMPILE flag when I upgrade.)

Edit: One question about DO_NOT_COMPILE, do I enter this in the command line as a one-shot variable or is there a configuration file I need to edit? I've read other posts turned up through a forum search but I'm still unclear about this.

deathdruid · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:58 pm Post subject:

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

O.K., I added:

El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1179 Location: Seattle

probably

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

Another question, how do I find out exactly what programs are contained in each package and their exact names? Right now I'm going through KDE and unemerging stuff I don't want then emerging the packages with the DO_NOT_COMPILE flag so I get exactly what I want without all the extra gunk.

And what exactly does "source /etc/profile" do? I've read the man page on "source" but an explanation in English would be nice.

Thanks for all your help. These forums are great!

shm · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject:

rogue · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:13 pm Post subject:

jimmybfan · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:20 pm Post subject:

To find out what most of the programs that ship with kde are check out http://docs.kde.org/

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

So do I have to run "source /etc/profile" every time I start the system? I'll just stick it in local.start if that's the case.

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(Response to the post just above mine):

Yes, I've seen the KDE docs on their website. The problem is, they're not complete and the program names don't necessarily correspond with the filename needed for the DO_NOT_COMPILE switch.

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

rogue · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject:

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

I see. Thanks for the clarification.

Ian Goldby · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject:

It makes more sense to me to put DO_NOT_COMPILE into your make.conf, along with USE and so on.

rm-rf · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 22

I hate KDE bloat too, so I always check out what dependencies are being built with kde:

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

Well, right now I'm unemerging stuff then selectively emerging just the programs I want. It takes a couple of times until I figure out all the program names (I sometimes miss one or make a typo), but at least it's one of those things I'll only have to do once.

shm · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:47 am Post subject:

puggy · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:46 am Post subject:

Also see here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=566042#566042

Puggy
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