On 1/22/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 07:57:15 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Keeping KDE up to date is no more or less effort than keeping GNOME > > > up to date. > > > Certainly no more effort, but it seems that it's possibly much more > > compute time which would get in the way of me running real time audio > > on my machines. > > Not since the introduction of the split ebuilds. It was true with the > monolithic ebuilds that updating one program required you to rebuilds a > large chunk of KDE, but that's no longer the case. If anything, I expect > it is much less work for the computer than a similar update for GNOME, > because the KDE packages are much more fine-grained now. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Good info. Thanks. I was sort of amazed (on the downside) that a couple of packages, like kdepim, took a huge amount of time. I *think* I wouldn't have this installed so it wouldn't be an issue. I suppose I need to look at all the KDE packages to determine what might be a reasonable subset to use. Assuming I did equesry correctly I get this right now: lightning ~ # equery -i list kde [ Searching for package 'kde' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] kde-base/kde-3.4.3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 (0) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdeaddons-3.4.3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdeadmin-3.4.3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.4.3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-3.4.3-r1 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-6 (0) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdeedu-3.4.3-r10 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdegames-3.4.3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.3-r1 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdenetwork-3.4.3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdepim-3.4.3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdetoys-3.4.3 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdeutils-3.4.3-r1 (3.4) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1 (3.4) lightning ~ # It seems like at least kdeedu, kdegames, kdepim & kdetoys wouldn't leave me missing really obvious stuff, at least from the names. It would seem that kdeadmin, kdebase, kdebase-pam, kdelibs, kdemultimedia & possibly kdeutils would be keepers. The rest I don't have an uneducated opinion on. ;-) Thanks for your help! Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
