On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 25/01/18 02:28, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:16:07 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>>> One user wants Gnome, the other wants Plasma. Is this doable? >>>> >>>> Currently, Plasma is installed, and the profile is: >>>> >>>> default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd >>>> >>>> The profiles seem to be either-or. There's one for plasma, one for >>>> gnome. But I need both now :-/ >>> >>> The differences between the profiles are mainly the USE flags set. As >>> your system is already built with the plasma profiles, I'd add gnome to >>> your USE flags and emerge gnome-base/gnome. Portage will shout at you if >>> you need to enable any other USE flags. >> >> Don't know. There's use flags that seem to be set because it's >> recommended to set them, not because they're needed. >> >> It seems to me that I have to choose either-or here in order to have a >> well working desktop. Otherwise, if something doesn't seem work right, >> I'll never know whether it's because of the profile or because of >> something else. >> >> I suppose I have to switch to the gnome profile and then see if KDE is >> still working as before. But it seems I'll have to manually replicate >> whatever the plasma profile is setting by hand. >> >> >> > > > This is what I would do. I would make sure emerge -uDNp world comes > back clean, no remerges or updates. Change profile to generic desktop. > Do a emerge -DNp world and look at what changes, especially USE flags. > Take those changes and set them in make.conf or package.use if you > prefer. Since both KDE and Gnome has their own desktop profile, using > the generic profile I think would be the best bet. You just may have to > set some things in make.conf/package.use to add KDE and Gnome settings > to have both installed at the same time. >
Yes, this works and I've done it, which is why I recommended it. Cheers, R0b0t1