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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 22:28:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Dienstag 23 Juni 2009, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > > On 06/23/2009 09:40 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > > > On Dienstag 23 Juni 2009, Mark Haney wrote: |
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> > > >> Okay, I took a week off to hit my beach house in the Outer Banks and |
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> > > >> now I'm back and ready to roll. I was in the middle of my KDE 4.2.4 |
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> > > >> upgrade when I left (most is done, just a few things like |
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> > > >> kdeedu-meta need to be merged) and now I find that when I get back |
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> > > >> and sync up, doing a update of kdeedu-meta-4.2.4 has the |
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> > > >> '-kdeprefix' as a new use flag. I didn't see this before. Is this |
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> > > >> now a required USE flag for KDE? |
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> > > >> |
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> > > >> If so I need to blow away my existing packages and build everything |
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> > > >> new, so what's the best way to do that with the minimum of fuss? |
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> > > > |
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> > > > kdeprefix has been masked ( a simple grep for it in |
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> > > > /usr/portage/porfiles would have told you that). |
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> > > > |
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> > > > And yes, you have to start new. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > The savest way is to deinstall all kde packages - I didn't do that |
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> > > > (in fact, I even had kde running while doing the switch), and it was |
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> > > > ok. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Either way, kdeprefix is gone. |
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> > > |
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> > > I'm baffled. This should have at least deserved some announcement. |
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> > > I'm subscribed to mailing lists and all the feeds on gentoo.org (Planet |
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> > > Gentoo and whatever.) Silence. This is not good. Someone has to |
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> > > inform us every now and then about what's going on, even if it's just a |
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> > > one-liner written posted in 10 seconds.... |
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> > |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml |
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> > there is such announcement on **Official** kde4 guide for Gentoo |
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> |
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> what he means is: |
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> a mail to gentoo-user, -announce and or a news item on gentoo.org would |
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> have been the right thing to do. |
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> |
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> And that is something I support. |
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A gentoo news item would have been excellent. I admit that we failed on that |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sound/Sunrise] |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |
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