On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/24/2010 07:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > 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. > > I don't understand your reply or what it answers.
because you haven't read the thread before you wrote your email?
