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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] KDE: unwanted dependencies
From:       Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-09-13 15:04:56
Message-ID: CAEH5T2NOfSQohTHx5pGNtGUfCCH9RTq+=w1d+5LN0AAeOzRmCA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
>> Hi people,
>>
>> I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1.
>> Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which
>
> No
>
>
>> appear to be required now? I have set USE=-semantic-desktop but it
>> doesn't seem to help.
>> My current KDE installation is quite happy without that stuff (which
>> also brings along tons of other crap).
>
>
> The KDE maintainers posted quite extensively about this some time back.
>
> It is too hard to try and extract semantic-desktop out of the KDE build
> whilst not breaking everything else. What you now do is allow the stuff
> to be built, and disable the function in System Settings.
>
> What this in effect means is you spend an extra 20 minutes building and
> have a few more meg of disk space consumed by code than you never run.

There was a series of threads recently in the gentoo-desktop mailing
list about someone proposing an overlay for KDE minus the
semantic/nepomuk stuff. Search the archives for "kde-lean".

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