Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > Is there an easy way to remove all of the kde packages before > > migration to kde-meta? > See the thread form a couple of hours ago, Awe, yes, Gmane runs very slow during the day (EST), I see this recent discussion. > I think you have misunderstood the purpose of the meta packages. They are > simply empty packages that depend on various other packages. The old kde > package was a meta-package that depended on the various monolithic > builds, now there is a meta-package to replace each of the monolithic > builds that depends on the split packages. kde-meta depend on all the > split ebuilds. Yep, this explains quite a lot..... > > Comments and Recommendations on kde-meta's future? > The meta-packages won't be going away, they are even more important with > the split ebuilds. they aren't exclusive to KDE either; gnome, > gnome-light and xorg-x11-7* are all meta packages. Thanks for the information, this clears things up for me.... James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
