On Fri, May 13, 2005 5:06 pm, Mark Knecht said: > My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How > long it yours?
It's not thye length, it's the amount of unnecessary content. But the world file on my laptop is 139 lines. > Just glancing through the file I spot very few things that wouldn't be > installed whether they were in in the world file or not, but I do have > 28 gnome entries and certainly some of them are not end user Gnomish > things, like gnome-base/librsvg. That's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. you certainly didn't emerge that because you wanted it, so the only way it could have got in there was by a "piece by piece emerge". > I have a problem with Portage and Gnome specifically. If I want to > emerge Gnome portage wants to emerge in Evolution. I don't use > Evolution but I didn't know how to get what I wanted (Gentoo is about > choice even if Gnome is not...) so I emerged the pieces and got what I > wanted. (And a longer world file...) > > How should I have gone about getting Gnome without Evolution? Gnome is a meta-package, like kde. It contains nothing but a long list of dependencies, for all of GNOME/KDE. If you only want specific parts, either merge them individually, the applications, not the libraries, or try gnome-light. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
