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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Does k3b need kde?
From:       David Morgan <david.morgan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2004-09-07 13:46:33
Message-ID: e3b422ef040907064667ea15e2 () mail ! gmail ! com
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In other words, compiling k3b and it's deps will probably take well
over 2 hours (maybe even 3 or 4+ hours)

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:43:12 +0200, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> Ric de France wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:21:16 +0200, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> >
> >>Not true. K3b can be emerged -kde and -arts (you have to do both). All
> >>you lose is the ability to use K3bSetup2 (only available if K3b is
> >>compiled with KDE support).
> >
> >
> > Does this mean that one can emerge k3b without installing kde first?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >
> > And let's say I've already emerge k3b with kde, how would I go about
> > uninstalling kde but leaving k3b? Is it just as simple as "emerge
> > unmerge kde && emerge depclean" (assuming all the dependencies that
> > are to be removed have been checked out and are ok to remove?
> 
> You would also need to re-emerge K3b -arts and -kde.
> 
> When I did this, I actually didn't even do an emerge depclean.
> 
> K3b is not a program that is integrated into KDE in the same way that
> Konqueror, for example, is part of the kdebase package.
> 
> It is a separate program, as is (for another example) KVirc, which I
> have also been able to use without KDE on the system. You have to have
> QT (of course) and kdelibs (iirc) installed to use such programs, but
> not necessarily KDE (base, et. al).
> 
> Other "K" programs vary, as some developers have not necessarily
> considered that you might like the program and want to use it, but not
> want to use KDE as a whole. ATM, I have KDE installed (wanted to see
> what 3.3.0 looked like), and so I have a couple of "other" KDE programs
> installed, and I don't know which of them I'll be able to keep if I
> decide to uninstall KDE at some future date.
> 
> It's really a process of trial and error for many programs, but I know
> from personal experience that both K3b and KVirc can be run on a system
> without KDE installed.
> 
> Holly
> 
> >
> > Anyway assistance would be appreciated...
> >
> > ...Ric
> 
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