[Sussex] A rant on using different distributions

[John D.]

Stephen Williams wrote:

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>I'm just finishing off a new install on a new 120Gb HDD in my trusty
>Dell notebook. Kde-meta (347 odd packages) took 30 odd hours to compile,
>but did so without a single failure. It's a case of start the compile
>and leave till done. Despite the large number of USE flags (compile
>options to non-Gentoo users) and huge number of packages, there was only
>a single compile failure, in Gnome-vfs, and that was easily fixed.
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>In addition, I've got everything that I want working. Lircd, mplayer,
>amarok, timidity, hal, dbus, ivman etc, and it all adds up to a great
>distro. Vote Gentoo I say!
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Steve,

Probably a stupid question, but seeing as how I installed as "stage 3 + 
GRP", have you got any idea of how I check to make sure that I did in 
fact, install the "split/meta" version of KDE, as opposed to the 
monolithic version thats still available for 2005.1 ?

I only ask, as I did try to unmerge some of the odd bits that I'll never 
use e.g. edutainment>languages>kiten but on the next "emerge -uD world" 
it just re-installed them. I do suspect that theres a reason for that, 
but for the life of me, I haven't managed to work out the "how's and why's".

regards

John D.