On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: >> Hi people, >> >> I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1. >> Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which > > No > > >> appear to be required now? I have set USE=-semantic-desktop but it >> doesn't seem to help. >> My current KDE installation is quite happy without that stuff (which >> also brings along tons of other crap). > > > The KDE maintainers posted quite extensively about this some time back. > > It is too hard to try and extract semantic-desktop out of the KDE build > whilst not breaking everything else. What you now do is allow the stuff > to be built, and disable the function in System Settings. > > What this in effect means is you spend an extra 20 minutes building and > have a few more meg of disk space consumed by code than you never run.
There was a series of threads recently in the gentoo-desktop mailing list about someone proposing an overlay for KDE minus the semantic/nepomuk stuff. Search the archives for "kde-lean".
