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Hi everyone, |
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I've released an initial (alpha-stage) set of ebuilds for kde3 (currently |
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beta1, will switch to cvs snapshots tomorrow). |
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Note: this is outside portage (cvs/rsync), is officially unstable and |
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completely unsupported and is for testing only. Also note that you will be |
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testing KDE3 as well as the ebuilds, and will ceratainly encounter bugs (and |
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report them, and help fix them) in both. |
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It won't be strictly stable until kde3-final is out. |
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You have been warned! |
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If you still want to try this out, go to |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/kde3-pre.html. Be sure to read all notes |
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carefully before using. |
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One note that's worth repeating here: in a week or two at the latest we'll |
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finally have support for multilpe KDEDIRs in all kinds of custom combinations |
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which will be really neat. Right now these ebuilds install into /usr, same as |
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the stable 2.2.2 ebuilds in portage. In other words, they're uncompatible and |
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you'll have to remerge all the kde 2.2.2 packages to have a stable |
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environment again. So even if you want to help test this stuff, you might |
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consider waiting for the multiple KDEDIRs support to crystallize (right now |
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it's somewhat uncertain what shape it'll take). |
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What's already working: all kde-base packages except for kdeaddons, |
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kdeartwork, kdepim and kdebindings. |
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The kde[libs] 2/3 combination is also doing great. I used kdebase-3.0_beta1 |
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with all the other kde-base packages from 2.2.2 for a day and it worked great |
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together. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team |
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Matan, Israel |