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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 now |
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>> I'm back and ready to roll. I was in the middle of my KDE 4.2.4 upgrade |
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>> when I left (most is done, just a few things like kdeedu-meta need to be |
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>> merged) and now I find that when I get back and sync up, doing a update |
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>> of kdeedu-meta-4.2.4 has the '-kdeprefix' as a new use flag. I didn't |
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>> see this before. Is this now a required USE flag for KDE? |
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>> If so I need to blow away my existing packages and build everything new, |
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>> 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 /usr/portage/porfiles |
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> would have told you that). |
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> |
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> And yes, you have to start new. |
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> The savest way is to deinstall all kde packages - I didn't do that (in fact, I |
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> even had kde running while doing the switch), and it was ok. |
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> Either way, kdeprefix is gone. |
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I'm baffled. This should have at least deserved some announcement. I'm |
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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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