On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:34:06 -0800, Grant wrote: >> > -* are masked for all archs. This is experimental beyond ~*. >> > Furthermore, you should at least specify your particular arch, like >> > x86, amd64, ppc. Many applications don't even use a -* arch so you >> > will be missing a whole bunch of stuff. >> > >> > A better way to handle this is to use the package.keywords file and >> > add to it any experimental ebuilds you want. >> > >> > man emerge will give you more information. >> >> I think he meant -* in USE and then adding some flags: for ex. USE="-* >> kde" > > That's exactly what I meant. Sorry about that. >
OOPS! My bad. The only negative that I can see is that there are dozens of valid use flags, many of which _could_ affect functionality. I still say, save your time, use a live cd or precompiled binaries while evaluating. OTOH, you can get the best of both worlds by using select KDE applications in XFCE. My personal combination is Enlightenment with Rox handling the panel and desktop. Then I use Kopete (IM client), Kgpg (gnupg frontend) that sit in a systray. Then khelpcenter which gives a nice view of all man and info pages. kinfocenter (sysinfo), Cervisia for cvs, and kdesu (su client). Those I use every day. However, I still keep the entire KDE system compiled. This is because I had kde on before everything else. I'm still not a big fan of the split ebuilds, and usually compile the whole suite when updates come out. KDE _is_ big though, and because of the way it stores (or Gentoo stores) .desktop and icon files, sort of breaks freedesktop.org standards. Getting a compliant menu program to accept kde apps requires a little elbow grease! I basically had to symlink lots of app stuff to my ~.local/share area. Good luck >> Peper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
