-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: > Hello, > > I kinda got my first kde 4.2.1 install working, > as can best be describe as a "random_walk". > > So I'm still getting it all straight in my head. > > Today upon a routine update to world, I noticed > that kdelibs 4.2.1-r3 want to rebuild, minus > the plasma and webkit flags: > > ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.1-r3 USE="3dnow > acl alsa bzip2 fam jpeg2k mmxnls opengl > semantic-desktop spell sse sse2 ssl > > Not good methinks, but, I'm looking for somebody > a little better versed in kde 4 to confirm > that I should leave these flags. > > If so, my default (favorite place) for this > is adding the flags to make.conf. After all > I manage more than a dozen workstations > and I try to have a much as possible the same > on these machines. > > Or should I rebuild kdelibs without these > flags? > > Sure I know what the flages do: > > plasma: > Build optional plasma widgets that require kde-base/libplasma > > webkit: > Enable bindings to QT Webkit > enable WebKit support > Use net-libs/webkit-gtk for rendering. > Enable QT-WebKit rendering support > Enable the webkit rendering engine > Enables gtk WebKit support > Use qt-webkit rendering engine for showing url thumbmails and for other > things > that needs webbrowser intergration. > Enable the webkit rendering engine for item rendering > Use net-libs/webkit-gtk for rendering rather than net-libs/xulrunner > Enable x11-libs/qt-webkit support, for more sophisticated online help display > using webkit's HTML renderer. > > > But I have too little wisdom with kde4 to discern > best practices. My default goal is to use > sets to have something smilarly to the meta > stuff, but not using meta now, so customizing > my onw sets, or following other Gentooers > that want massive (all) kde applications > on many workstations, as to have one > semantic to suppport, without "meta". > > > James
You almost certainly want +plasma, as in this case +plasma means "build the base libraries required for plasma", which means if you don't, the desktop and panel won't work anymore. I'm not sure about webkit, but that would probably be another, "if in doubt, enable". - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknNIh0ACgkQOypDUo0oQOokNACfcqEi5JF0iliONaUIonejOZdP iysAn1qjMPI/um9MuawSVoXVucz4qsLj =1UOi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
