On Wednesday 21 December 2005 06:32, Paul wrote: > "I. I. Ooisen" <ii001001@xxxxxxxx>, on Tue Dec 20, 2005 [08:56:49 AM] said: > > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 07:55, Noah Roberts wrote: > > > On 12/19/05, I. I. Ooisen <ii001001@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > is it because noteedit is a kde app and most of us are gnome > > > > supporters? > > > > > > localhost mp3 # emerge -pv noteedit > > > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > [ genormous list of dependancies ] > > > > Total size of downloads: 31,312 kB > > > > > > > > > I have to admit that is definately a point against it. Even with > > > emerge I'm not that interested in adding all that crap to my > > > system right now. > > .. > > > NOW SERIOUSLY: > > > > the way i see it packed under portage is a point against GENTOO, > > not against NOTEEDIT. really! > > > > i didn't have to apt-get kappfinder in order to use noteedit or > > anything like kdemultimedia (also kmid, or kmix, or arts, or > > mpeglib, or kscd?!? -- GENTOO REALLY SCARES ME HERE... I HAD BETTER > > OPINIONS ON IT!) > > Hi; > > In all fairness, that ebuild is probably going a little > overboard, by being lazy. It actually depends on 'kdemultimedia', > to get its kde thing going, which drags in most of that stuff. > And then it ignores USE to force inclusion of arts, and also > includes the optional tse3 lib. > This is fairly anti-ethical to the Gentoo Way, and if > I cared at all about noteedit, I would probably fix the ebuild > and submit a bug report. (At the *very least*, arts should not be > being forced here, and some of the other stuff like tse3 should > probably depend on if midi is desired.) > > Paul > set@xxxxxxxxx fair comment. in addition, from what i know, not even tse is *vital*, even for some of the midi functionality. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
