Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.2.4 and kdeprefix

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

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

what he means is:
a mail to gentoo-user, -announce and or a news item on gentoo.org would have 
been the right thing to do.

And that is something I support.