Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Willie Wong wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:18:27AM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos
>> Chantziaras squawked:
>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>> kde-base/kate
>>>> kde-base/kdebase-startkde
>>>> kde-base/ksmserver
>>>> These were dependencies and therefore were not in my world file.
>>>> If they get unmerge, things will break. KDevelop will break
>>>> without Kate, and KDE 3.5 itself will break without the other two. :P
>>> OK, now I'm really curious; turns out they are NOT dependencies :P
>>> I just checked with equery and nothing depends on them. Is that
>>> normal? I mean, startkde for example is crucial to even start KDE 3
>>> and it's not a dependency?
>>
>> Hum, that is bizarre. I just tried emerge -pvt kde-meta, and it shows
>> that kde-meta depends on kdebase-meta depends on kdebase-startkde
>> (all version 3.5.9)
>>
>> Checking all the ebuilds currently in the tree (versions 3.5.9,
>> 3.5.10, 4.1.2 and 4.1.3), shows that all versions of kdebase-meta
>> depend on their corresponding versions of kdebase-startkde (they all
>> contain the line
>> >=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-${PV}:${SLOT}
>>
>> which picks the right slot). So something is probably broken on your
>> system. Check the contents of the various ebuilds for the versions you
>> installed to see what's wrong.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
If he is going to use KDE as his GUI, doesn't he need to start with at
least kdebase then add onto that? On my system, kdebase brings in
startkde. If he emerges that and it gets added to the world file, would
that help with the current problem?
I only use KDE here but from what I have read you can install Konqueror
and still use some other GUI without KDE being installed and possibly no
startkde. Could this be "confusing" portage into thinking he is doing
this? Maybe?
Dale
:-) :-)
