[Sussex] A rant on using different distributions

[Stephen Williams]

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 13:00 +0100, John D. wrote:
> Stephen Williams wrote:
> 
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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!
> >
> </snip>
> 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".


Try:

emerge -p kde-meta | more

If you get a load of blocking kde packages at the top of the list,
you've got the monolithic version installed.

Steve.

> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
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