Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages

2006-02-26 Thread Mike Myers
Duncan wrote [deleted] Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Do you know if there's a way or going to be a way to handle the split ebuilds so that reemerging or unemerging a split ebuild will reemerge or unemerge the corresponding packages? It seems like the ebuilds are only intended t

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages

2006-02-25 Thread Mike Myers
John Myers wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 10:33, Mike Myers wrote: emerge --newuse kde-meta use also '--deep'. Also, consider using 'world' as the target Also, you don't have to unmerge packages before re-merging them. What do I use if I just want to r

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages

2006-02-25 Thread Mike Myers
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: A part you probably mixed a bit the difference between monolithic and split packages... On Saturday 25 February 2006 09:32, Mike Myers wrote: My question is; Is there any better way to do these kinds of things yet? man emerge -> look

[gentoo-dev] KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages

2006-02-25 Thread Mike Myers
Hello! Currently, as you all surely already know, KDE is currently handled with metapackages or monolithic packages. The metapackages is very convenient for a more complete install of KDE, and the monolithic packages are better or a more modular install. However, with the metapackages, it s