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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.2.4 and kdeprefix
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:21:33
Message-Id: 200906232221.27196.hwoarang@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.2.4 and kdeprefix by Nikos Chantziaras
1 > On 06/23/2009 09:40 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > > On Dienstag 23 Juni 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
3 > >> Okay, I took a week off to hit my beach house in the Outer Banks and now
4 > >> I'm back and ready to roll. I was in the middle of my KDE 4.2.4 upgrade
5 > >> when I left (most is done, just a few things like kdeedu-meta need to be
6 > >> merged) and now I find that when I get back and sync up, doing a update
7 > >> of kdeedu-meta-4.2.4 has the '-kdeprefix' as a new use flag. I didn't
8 > >> see this before. Is this now a required USE flag for KDE?
9 > >>
10 > >> If so I need to blow away my existing packages and build everything new,
11 > >> so what's the best way to do that with the minimum of fuss?
12 > >
13 > > kdeprefix has been masked ( a simple grep for it in /usr/portage/porfiles
14 > > would have told you that).
15 > >
16 > > And yes, you have to start new.
17 > >
18 > > The savest way is to deinstall all kde packages - I didn't do that (in
19 > > fact, I even had kde running while doing the switch), and it was ok.
20 > >
21 > > Either way, kdeprefix is gone.
22 >
23 > I'm baffled. This should have at least deserved some announcement. I'm
24 > subscribed to mailing lists and all the feeds on gentoo.org (Planet
25 > Gentoo and whatever.) Silence. This is not good. Someone has to
26 > inform us every now and then about what's going on, even if it's just a
27 > one-liner written posted in 10 seconds....
28 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml
29 there is such announcement on **Official** kde4 guide for Gentoo
30 --
31 Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
32 Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sunrise/Sound]
33 Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.2.4 and kdeprefix Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.2.4 and kdeprefix Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>