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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 7:35 pm    Post subject: Install only part of a Gentoo package? Reply with quote

Is there a way to install only part of a package? Taking kdenetwork as an example; it installs kppp by default. I don't use kppp and don't want it on my system.

According to /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc, there is no USE variable for PPP, so I can't use that.

Is there any way, short of manually editing the kdenetwork ebuild script, to build a package minus one or two of the components?

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 11:44 pm    Post subject: Nope Reply with quote

Not to my knowledge. All or nothing, barring USE variables.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:22 am    Post subject: Re: Install only part of a Gentoo package? Reply with quote

klieber wrote:
Taking kdenetwork as an example; it installs kppp by default. I don't use kppp and don't want it on my system.

I'd like that very much, too. Actually, one of the things I like most about Gentoo is exactly the ability to install only what you want, and nothing else. So, being able to install e.g. kmail without getting kppp too would just be in accordance with this philosophy.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, guess I'll file a bug report as a feature suggestion.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well if u just want one package, (the one requiring kppp) you could emerge --nodeps kmail
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm... the only way i can think of to install an individual piece of a kde package is to unpack it and muck around inside to look for the particular makefile that builds the app you want
it really isnt a gentoo problem... more of a kde thing
maybe you could use ebuild to fetch, unpack, compile, and install the packe (dont qmerge it) and then manually copy files over from the /var/tmp directory.. but again.. thats really messy
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please dont do that..

One of the thigns I so disliked about Debian was that it broke up KDE like this, and typically broke things.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 4:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

febisfebi wrote:
well if u just want one package, (the one requiring kppp) you could emerge --nodeps kmail

kppp is not a dependency of kmail. They come (with others) bundled inside kdenetwork.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

(Splitted to reflect new topic package dependencies)
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

guest: debian didnt break anything.
people want choice.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anonymous wrote:
One of the thigns I so disliked about Debian was that it broke up KDE like this, and typically broke things.


You must have had a unique experience with Debian, then, because I've never, ever heard anyone else complain about this.
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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2002 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fghellar wrote:
febisfebi wrote:
well if u just want one package, (the one requiring kppp) you could emerge --nodeps kmail

kppp is not a dependency of kmail. They come (with others) bundled inside kdenetwork.


just an example, if it did.
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