How do you emerge gnome?

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FizzyWidget · Post by **FizzyWidget** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:39 am

A strange question i know, by that i mean do you go the emerge gnome-light route then add what you need after or do you just do emerge gnome, and let it install everything?

rh1 · Post by **rh1** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:53 am

On laptop I just emerge gnome. But then it has big harddrive, i7, 6G ram. No reason to be stingy.

FizzyWidget · Post by **FizzyWidget** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:09 pm

mine is only a little core duo 2 with 3gb of ram, and a 250GB hdd i have carved up, so i guess i have the space, so like you say why be stingy

jcTux · Post by **jcTux** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 1:18 pm

I prefer emerge gnome-light, and add after some more stuff i need.
Because gnome meta-package has to much things that I do not want, like evolution...

FizzyWidget · Post by **FizzyWidget** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:53 pm

yes that annoys me. is there a site that lists the packages like in kde?

dudumomo · Post by **dudumomo** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:16 pm

I'm emerging gnome-light as well.
But after that, I'm always hesitating about what to merge next to get a nice working environment as just emerging gnome (Which had too many software that I don't use)
But I think, but emerge -vp gnome you can already see what you are going to emerge and then doing emerge gnome-light + what you need from gnome

But it would be indeed interesting to know what to emerge to get a nice interface.

SamuliSuominen · Post by **SamuliSuominen** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:29 pm

# emerge xfce4-meta

problem solved

d2_racing · Post by **d2_racing** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:13 pm

Or use the CLI only

Amity88 · Post by **Amity88** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:48 pm

Dude, I started with gnome-light as well. It compiles faster, but you need to emerge a lot of stuff after..... gdm is essential, and you need to manually emerge after gnome-light.