On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:37:32AM +0000, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > It's almost a fact that most distros lean towards either Gnome or KDE. I tried > KDE a year ago with Debian and was pretty impressed. Then again, this may > have been because of Debian's very slow updates to Gnome 2.2. I guess I just > wanted something different.
Been there, done that on both counts. I've often tried a different desktop environment, been impressed with the new eye candy or features for a bit, and then gone back to my favorite because the new one has things that I either just don't like or is missing features. Been about a year since I first discovered gentoo as well, but I remember that with debian you had to add lots of different apt-sources lines to get the latest and greatest of things. > What do people think ?? I know it's *my* choice, of course. If I decide to > switch, how do I do so and get the LATEST gnome stuff available ?? I'm not > afraid of running "unstable", which I believe is the "-x86" flagged stuff. Gnome 2.4 is in portage, and was put there probably less than a week after it was released. The impression I get from the gentoo people is that both gnome and kde "camps" have equally dedicated people working in them to get the latest packages stable and out the door. They don't lag nearly as much as debian but don't seem (that I've seen anyway) to have big ugly bugs resulting from putting stuff out the door too quickly. Personally what I do is if something isn't released soon enough I either put on ~86 for that package or do an emerge of the .ebuild file that I'm wanting. Portage makes it easy to revert and move back and forth between versions without too many ugly remnants of old packages. > Also, how would I "purge" all KDE stuff ?? I do like Konqueror and KMail. Are > static-linked packages available for those ?? Check the list archives and forums, I know there are cute one liners for doing this but I don't remember them now. "emerge -epv kde" will show you *all* of KDEs dependancies though. As for static linked packages, do an emerge -pv for the packages and there may be a "static" USE flag you can use. If not you'll have to leave qt and the kdelibs packages installed (unless someone else has bright ideas). -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
