Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

[Beso]

2008/5/30 Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>:

> Beso wrote:
>
>> 2008/5/30 Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>:
>>
>>  2008/5/30 Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>:
>>>
>>>  Beso wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  2008/5/29 Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de
>>>>> >:
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  Do I NEED kde-meta-4.0 installed?  The HOWTO says otherwise.  I'd
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> prefer
>>>>>>> to have a chance to fall back on to 3.5.9 if I need to.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  you can have kde-meta-4.0.4 and kde3.5.9 installed at the same time.
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> do...
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> gentoo-amd64@l.g.o mailing list
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  you aren't forced to have it installed but since the deps aren't
>>>>>> fully
>>>>>>
>>>>> ok
>>>>> nowadays the kdebase-meta-4.0.4 is good to be installed. and since it's
>>>>> a
>>>>> slotted install (as almost all gentoo major bump versions or even minor
>>>>> in
>>>>> some cases as python, gcc, java, autotools and autoconf for example)
>>>>> they
>>>>> are likely to not interfere with each others. you'll just have to make
>>>>> a
>>>>> copy of your .kde folder. the first time you'll login the system will
>>>>> create
>>>>> a .kde3.5, a .kde4 and a .kde symlink in your home directory. the first
>>>>> is
>>>>> the config for the 3.5 enviroment, the second for the kde4 one and the
>>>>> symlink points to the last environment you've used and after login is
>>>>> pointing to the in use environment. if you haven't started yet kde4 and
>>>>> find
>>>>> a .kde4 folder in your home directory then move it elsewhere and retry
>>>>> a
>>>>> login after installing the kdebase-meta-4.0.4. this is the minimum
>>>>> required
>>>>> package along with kdebase-startkde-4.0.4 to be able to use kde4. if
>>>>> you
>>>>> don't like it then just remove the kde4 slot packages and you'll stay
>>>>> with
>>>>> kde3.5. just remember that a qt rebuild needs a kdelibs rebuild: the
>>>>> qt4
>>>>> needs  also the kdelibs-3.5.x rebuild to have the qt4 apps still
>>>>> working
>>>>> in
>>>>> the correct way (lastfm would display only broken stuff without kdelibs
>>>>> rebuild after a qt4 upgrade/rebuild), while the qt3 doesn't need a
>>>>> kdelibs-4.0.4 rebuild, but only a kdelibs-3.5.x one. i'd also advice
>>>>> you
>>>>> to
>>>>> leave the 4.0.4 branch and test the 4.1 beta one (seems to be better in
>>>>> terms of quality and usability than 4.0.4 one).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hey, I'll all for testing 4.1, but how do I get it?  I don't see it in
>>>> portage?
>>>>
>>>>  there's a thread on the forum about installing the 4.1 beta 1 on
>>> gentoo. i
>>> think that in the next weeks the rc might hit portage in the second half
>>> of
>>> june.
>>>
>>>
>>>  forgotten the thread link:
>>
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5106540.html#5106540
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Thanks for the URL. I've never dealt with overlays before, but I"m open
> to it.  My question is, if I use the kde4.1 overlay how do I get rid of it,
> when the time comes that 4.1 is in portage?  If I delete the overlay does
> that delete the packages that were installed with it?  I read the UG on it,
> but it wasn't very clear.
>

you unistall it and install the new slot. the kde 4.1 should have the kde4
slot while the kde4.1 beta has the kde4-live slot. you can clearly see that
they're different slots and that removing one doesn't prevent you from using
the other. anyway, in my opinion that overlay will die after the kde4.1 will
hit portage or soon after that.

-- 
dott. ing. beso