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From: Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 12:59:39
Message-Id: d257c3560805300559y73a4ce5s7cc4e5cab9a969bb@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of. by Beso
1 2008/5/30 Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>:
2
3 > 2008/5/30 Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>:
4 >
5 >> Beso wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> 2008/5/29 Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>:
8 >>>
9 >>> On Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
10 >>>>
11 >>>> Do I NEED kde-meta-4.0 installed? The HOWTO says otherwise. I'd
12 >>>>> prefer
13 >>>>> to have a chance to fall back on to 3.5.9 if I need to.
14 >>>>>
15 >>>> you can have kde-meta-4.0.4 and kde3.5.9 installed at the same time. I
16 >>>> do...
17 >>>> --
18 >>>> gentoo-amd64@l.g.o mailing list
19 >>>>
20 >>>>
21 >>>> you aren't forced to have it installed but since the deps aren't fully
22 >>> ok
23 >>> nowadays the kdebase-meta-4.0.4 is good to be installed. and since it's a
24 >>> slotted install (as almost all gentoo major bump versions or even minor
25 >>> in
26 >>> some cases as python, gcc, java, autotools and autoconf for example) they
27 >>> are likely to not interfere with each others. you'll just have to make a
28 >>> copy of your .kde folder. the first time you'll login the system will
29 >>> create
30 >>> a .kde3.5, a .kde4 and a .kde symlink in your home directory. the first
31 >>> is
32 >>> the config for the 3.5 enviroment, the second for the kde4 one and the
33 >>> symlink points to the last environment you've used and after login is
34 >>> pointing to the in use environment. if you haven't started yet kde4 and
35 >>> find
36 >>> a .kde4 folder in your home directory then move it elsewhere and retry a
37 >>> login after installing the kdebase-meta-4.0.4. this is the minimum
38 >>> required
39 >>> package along with kdebase-startkde-4.0.4 to be able to use kde4. if you
40 >>> don't like it then just remove the kde4 slot packages and you'll stay
41 >>> with
42 >>> kde3.5. just remember that a qt rebuild needs a kdelibs rebuild: the qt4
43 >>> needs also the kdelibs-3.5.x rebuild to have the qt4 apps still working
44 >>> in
45 >>> the correct way (lastfm would display only broken stuff without kdelibs
46 >>> rebuild after a qt4 upgrade/rebuild), while the qt3 doesn't need a
47 >>> kdelibs-4.0.4 rebuild, but only a kdelibs-3.5.x one. i'd also advice you
48 >>> to
49 >>> leave the 4.0.4 branch and test the 4.1 beta one (seems to be better in
50 >>> terms of quality and usability than 4.0.4 one).
51 >>>
52 >>>
53 >> Hey, I'll all for testing 4.1, but how do I get it? I don't see it in
54 >> portage?
55 >>
56 >
57 > there's a thread on the forum about installing the 4.1 beta 1 on gentoo. i
58 > think that in the next weeks the rc might hit portage in the second half of
59 > june.
60 >
61 >
62 forgotten the thread link:
63
64 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5106540.html#5106540
65
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68
69 --
70 dott. ing. beso

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