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Bug 351926

Summary: Doc suggests installing unsupported scenarios
Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org Reporter: Eric Johnson <eric>
Component: Other documentsAssignee: Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: minor CC: tampakrap
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml
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Description Eric Johnson 2011-01-17 16:45:53 UTC
Documentation suggests:
# emerge -av kde-meta (contains all of KDE modules)
# emerge -av kdebase-meta kdegames-meta (installation of chosen modules only)

However, upon doing the 2nd of these, I notice a whole bunch of warnings because I hadn't also installed kdebase-startkde.  I suggest adding that to the documentation.

I also tried installing the above without first doing an install of xorg-server, and that meant xdm wasn't installed.  I suspect that this documentation should first reference that X be installed first - I figured I could rely on startkde to pull this in as a dependency, but I suspect it really just needs to be done first.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2011-02-18 21:18:15 UTC
Good point. Something for our docs guru...
Comment 2 Theo Chatzimichos (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2011-02-19 00:04:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Documentation suggests:
> # emerge -av kde-meta (contains all of KDE modules)
> # emerge -av kdebase-meta kdegames-meta (installation of chosen modules only)
> 
> However, upon doing the 2nd of these, I notice a whole bunch of warnings
> because I hadn't also installed kdebase-startkde.  I suggest adding that to the
> documentation.

The warning was disabled for kde-base apps in the eclasses that are in the overlay, they will move to tree in about a month. No need to touch the doc for this

> I also tried installing the above without first doing an install of
> xorg-server, and that meant xdm wasn't installed.  I suspect that this
> documentation should first reference that X be installed first - I figured I
> could rely on startkde to pull this in as a dependency, but I suspect it really
> just needs to be done first.

You don't need to install X, it can be remote. If it should be installed first, it would be a depedency.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Good point. Something for our docs guru...

Why? I am in the alias