I don't use all of KDE, just the parts I need to run a few applications I like, such as kmail and kgpg. It seems like it could be a good idea to have the dependencies set up for people like me. In this specific case, kgpg failed until I installed arts -- why sound is required for gpg, I have no idea, but kgpg ought to be smart enough to pull it in if I don't have it, or have an arts use flag. Thoughts? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have partial kde installed 2. Emerge kgpg 3. Fails at mcopidl because arts isn't pulled in by depend This is the maximum kde packages required to run kgpg and kmail; I haven't tried cropping it down any further, but I imagine it could lose a few more packages like kdeadmin, kdeartwork, kdeutils. $ ls /var/db/pkg/kde-base/ arts-1.1.2 kde-env-3-r2 kdeartwork-3.1.2 kdelibs-3.1.2 kdeutils-3.1.2 kde-3.1.2 kdeadmin-3.1.2 kdebase-3.1.2 kdenetwork-3.1.2
Yeah, this is a common request. In your case, kgpg only requires a base installation of kde kmail requires kdenetwork (actually, it's part of kdenetwork in 3.1 and kdepim in 3.2) But a base kde installation requires: arts, kdelibs, and kdebase. This is because kdelibs and kdebase have dependencies on arts. I don't use sound either, so I know your pain. I believe this is intended to be fixed in an upcoming version of kde, but until then, we're stuck with it. :( In this case, I say there's problem some problem with you doing a strange install. kgpg only looks to see if you have kde installed happily. In order to do that, you should have had to pull in arts at some point. If you've somehow tricked it into thinking it has arts (you would have to have done this in order to get kdelibs installed), then it's not going to know any different.
This is actually now possible in new versions of kde using the DO_NOT_COMPILE flag. You can install the necessary packages you need but turn off compilation of sub-packages that you don't want to use reducing the compile and install time.
Hm, I guess the issue remaining on this bug is how meta-ebuilds like kde work. If I install something that depends on kde and assumes an "emerge kde" means nothing was unmerged, it has problems just depending on kde instead of everything it actually needs. I'm still leaning toward the belief that listing every real dependency is better.
KDe should now support --without-arts completely, and kgpg is now in the bigger kde ebuilds, so I'm closing this one as fixed.
