On Saturday 28 November 2009 19:42:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2009 21:32:28 Mick wrote: > > > I suppose one could make several useful -meta packages DEPEND on kate, > > > as many users want kate and do not want the entire kdesdk package. But > > > that causes the same app to appear in more than one -meta package and > > > the devs seem to want to avoid that - there is a strict one-to-one > > > mapping between what the -meta packages install and what is shipped in > > > the upstream tarballs by KDE > > > > Sorry I'm being rather dense with this ... are you saying that the > > DEPENDs listed when you run 'equery depends -a kate' are different to > > mine because you are running KDE4 from KDE-testing overlay, while I am > > running stable portage? > > No, the contents of the -meta packages are pretty much the same between the > overlay and the official tree (apart from new apps added in the latest KDE > snapshots, and other minor things that get dropped in the new branch of > course). > > The kde-testing overlay provides a collection of sets which the portage > tree does not do. The main set explicitly includes kate because it's part > of kdesdk and it's a bit rich to expect all users to install the entire > dev suite just to get a gui text editor. > > The official tree has the same situation: > > # grep kate /var/portage/kde-base/*-meta*/*4.3.3.ebuild > /var/portage/kde-base/kde-meta/kde-meta-4.3.3.ebuild: $(add_kdebase_dep > kate) > /var/portage/kde-base/kdesdk-meta/kdesdk-meta-4.3.3.ebuild: > $(add_kdebase_dep kate) > > # cat /var/portage/kde-base/kde-meta/kde-meta-4.3.3.ebuild > ... > RDEPEND=" > $(add_kdebase_dep kate) > $(add_kdebase_dep kdeadmin-meta) > ... > > To give kate to users, it was added to kde-meta, and it's the only explicit > DEPEND in the ebuild, everything else is the smaller -meta packages. > > To get kate, you must do one of: > 1. emerge kde-meta (or the @kde set) > 2. emerge kdesdk (or the @kdesdk set) > 3. emerge kate
Thank you kindly for persevering - the logic is clear to me now. :-) -- Regards, Mick
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