[gentoo-user] depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:20:25AM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked:
> I'm not using -meta packages. Many packages they pulled in was stuff I
> don't wanted (like PIM). I emerged KDE packages one-by-one and went with
> what got pulled in as dependencies.

Uh.. then what exactly were you complaining about? The only thing that
depends on kdebase-startkde is kdebase-meta, at least in a
standard-ish installation of KDE using the meta packages.

Let me put it this way: by not installing the -meta package, you
explicitly say that you think you know better than the kde devs in
what makes a basic, useable, KDE desktop. And now you complain because
your subset of KDE packages does not contain everything you need?

Okay, all jokes aside: since you have particular wants and don't-wants
with regards to the KDE packaging, I really suggest that instead of
keeping all that junk in your world file, that you create your own
overlay and write your own -meta ebuild. My guess is just copying the
kde-meta ebuild and editting the RDEPEND variable to reflect the
actual packages you want will do it.

HTH,

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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>
>> And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What
>> difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it
>> doesn't matter a bit how that path looks like if it's wrong. If a KDE4
>> path would come before a KDE3 path in a KDE3 session, the last thing
>> you care about is whether that path is /usr/bin or /usr/kde/4.1/bin.
>>
>
> Because /usr/bin will always be in your PATH, so even if you are running a
> KDE 3 session, KDE4 programs will be loaded. By keeping the separate,not
> only from one another but also from other programs, you can ensure that
> your PATH includes only KDE3 or KDE4 programs.
>
>
>

So to clarify a bit more, for me at least. If you login to KDE 3.5 then
/usr/kde/3.5/bin is in your path but not /usr/kde/kde/4.*. The same
could be said in the reverse I assume?

If you don't use the flag and login to KDE 3.5 then all the KDE 4.*
stuff is in your path and anytime you try to open a KDE 3.5 app, it sees
the KDE 4.* apps first? Correct? If it is, I can only imagine how
confused a computer would be.

I wonder if a person could change the order that those paths are
searched? Could you put in a config file somewhere to search one first
then the others or would that just not work well in the reverse situation?

I think I am out of cents again. o~o I'm starting to see why this is
so confusing to a computer now. Whew !

Dale