On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >>>> I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer > >>>> important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia. > >>>> I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. All I need > >>>> from any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager for > >>>> multiple desktops. > >>>> I spend most of my time in vim, in the C program and documentation > >>>> toolchains or in a browser. > >>>> > >>>> The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from > >>>> running out of disk space. A little research showed that an > >>>> odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in some > >>>> dotfiles. It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is. I've > >>>> got a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was never > >>>> near full before. > >>> > >>> Put "-semantic-desktop" in your make.conf. emerge -auDN world. emerge > >>> -a --depclean. That should do it. > >> > >> Is that even possible? Won't a number of KDE apps demand the > >> semantic-desktop use flag set? > > > > For KDE 4.4, +semantic-desktop is mandatory, though you can still turn > > off the services after installing them. > > > > Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment, > > he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk > > space. > > How do you know what he needs? He probably wants KDE but without the > whole "Semantic Desktop" thingy.
he wrote: > Thanks. My having research work with a few hundred thousand small files and a couple of terrabytes of storage and backups could account for the size. Some occasional sluggishness too. It makes no sense to index any of this, so ditching it feels good. and semantic-desktop was developed to help people with such workloads.
