Re: [gentoo-alpha] KDE4 on Alpha

[Ian Las]

Hi Matt,

thanks for the bad info - I actually like Koffice and this is the main reason why I am interested in KDE.
So I will give another try but as I have not much experience working with software it is complicated for me.

Thanks,

Ian 


--- Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> schrieb am Do, 30.6.2011:

> Von: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
> Betreff: Re: [gentoo-alpha] KDE4 on Alpha
> An: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
> Datum: Donnerstag, 30. Juni, 2011 05:07 Uhr
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Ian
> Las <ialas@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Gentoo/Alpha geeks
> >
> > tried to build KDE4 on my Alpha.
> >
> > Updated the system first to the current version but it
> was still not posssible to solve
> >
> > all required dependencies. In the end I could satisfy
> all dependencies for KDEbase but
> >
> > got problems with QT.
> >
> > Has anybody successfully build KDE4 - which version of
> KDE4 and QT does work on
> >
> > Alpha ?
> >
> > Kindest regards,
> >
> > Ian
>
> Hi Ian!
>
> Unfortunately, we don't have any plans to support KDE on
> Gentoo/Alpha.
> It's a huge amount of software, and we simply don't have
> the man-power
> to test it, much less fixing tons of bugs like unaligned
> accesses.
>
> If you'd like to try it, you can use portage's --autounmask
> flag to
> help install KDE. I perhaps could help with an occasional
> bug in Qt,
> but beyond that, it's too much work.
>
> Thanks, and sorry,
>
> Matt
>
>