Bug 393589

Summary:	kde-meta - include USE flag to exclude unwanted apps
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lyall Pearce <Lyall>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	bes.internal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Lyall Pearce 2011-12-08 08:25:49 UTC

Installation of KDE is easy, emerge kde-meta, however, not everyone wants everything that kde-meta includes.

I would like to propose that the kde-meta include a few USE flags, such as 'education', 'scientific' and particularly 'games', such that, setting of use flags will not install unwanted apps.

The alternative is to unmerge kde-meta and manually install each required sub meta package, exlcluding the unwanted meta packages.

Comment 1 Vladimir Varlamov 2011-12-08 09:15:11 UTC

You should try to make a minimum use-flags. Therefore this is not an alternative but the expected behavior.

Comment 2 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-08 10:45:51 UTC

Please read description of kde-base/kde-meta. If you want a modular kde start with kde-base/kdebase-meta and add applications or other meta packages afterwards. For more information see:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml