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2009/6/12 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> |
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> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> posted h0sosu$bcj$1@×××××××××.org, |
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> excerpted below, on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:25:51 +0300: |
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> > On 06/11/2009 11:07 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> >> I can give you examples why it is good: -you can have multiple |
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> >> versions of kde installed |
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> > *If* you want multiple versions. |
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> >> - it makes updates risk free. You go from X.Y.Z to X.Y.Z+1 or X.Y+1 - |
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> >> and before you do so, you just copy the whole kde dir. |
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> > Why not just "quickpkg --include-config=y --include-unmodified-config=y" |
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> > all to-be-upgraded packages? Looks just as safe to me. In fact, I do |
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> > this on a regular basis. |
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> Or with FEATURES=buildpkg, you'll already have stuff binpkged as you |
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> merge it, so it's easy enough to revert, just emerge -K =pkg-ver or mask |
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> the new version and remerge -K to get the old one. (Altho this will get |
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> you the original config, but with kde, most folks don't change the system |
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> config anyway, only the package-untouched user config in $HOME.) |
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> And it's easy enough to get a package files list from equery and the |
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> like, should it become necessary. |
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> Plus it should be mentioned that kde-3.5 remains where it is in /usr/kde, |
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> so it's still possible to run a 3.5 and a 4.x version together, even when |
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> 4.x is in the normal /usr/ dirs. That's important for those of us who |
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> haven't and probably won't move off of kde-3.5 for general usage for some |
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> time, but still want to experiment with 4.x. |
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finally, 4.3 will mark the removal of my old 3.5 installation. i think that |
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for about 90% of people will be finally able to switch entirely to kde4. The |
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apps are now mostly complete and the 3.5 apps that are still maintained have |
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now been ported; plasma is ok and quite customizable, the backends are |
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working well, with the exception of pulseaudio that is now having some |
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problems with the phonon backend when used in conjuction with flash and old |
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apps that lock directly the physical card, but i suspect that this is due to |
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some configuration issue. |
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Well, anyway, if any of you has tried to have kde4.x and kde-svn running on |
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the same installation would have a lot of problems. the prefix is not |
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working very well and there are quite some problems with apps identifying |
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the wrong path. |
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dott. ing. beso |