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Beso wrote: |
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> 2008/5/29 Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>: |
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>> On Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2008, Mark Haney wrote: |
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>>> Do I NEED kde-meta-4.0 installed? The HOWTO says otherwise. I'd prefer |
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>>> to have a chance to fall back on to 3.5.9 if I need to. |
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>> you can have kde-meta-4.0.4 and kde3.5.9 installed at the same time. I |
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>> do... |
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>> gentoo-amd64@l.g.o mailing list |
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> you aren't forced to have it installed but since the deps aren't fully ok |
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> nowadays the kdebase-meta-4.0.4 is good to be installed. and since it's a |
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> slotted install (as almost all gentoo major bump versions or even minor in |
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> some cases as python, gcc, java, autotools and autoconf for example) they |
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> are likely to not interfere with each others. you'll just have to make a |
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> copy of your .kde folder. the first time you'll login the system will create |
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> a .kde3.5, a .kde4 and a .kde symlink in your home directory. the first is |
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> the config for the 3.5 enviroment, the second for the kde4 one and the |
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> symlink points to the last environment you've used and after login is |
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> pointing to the in use environment. if you haven't started yet kde4 and find |
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> a .kde4 folder in your home directory then move it elsewhere and retry a |
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> login after installing the kdebase-meta-4.0.4. this is the minimum required |
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> package along with kdebase-startkde-4.0.4 to be able to use kde4. if you |
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> don't like it then just remove the kde4 slot packages and you'll stay with |
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> kde3.5. just remember that a qt rebuild needs a kdelibs rebuild: the qt4 |
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> needs also the kdelibs-3.5.x rebuild to have the qt4 apps still working in |
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> the correct way (lastfm would display only broken stuff without kdelibs |
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> rebuild after a qt4 upgrade/rebuild), while the qt3 doesn't need a |
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> kdelibs-4.0.4 rebuild, but only a kdelibs-3.5.x one. i'd also advice you to |
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> leave the 4.0.4 branch and test the 4.1 beta one (seems to be better in |
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> terms of quality and usability than 4.0.4 one). |
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Hey, I'll all for testing 4.1, but how do I get it? I don't see it in |
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portage? |
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