On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:

> Yes, there are still people using KDE 3.5, from the kde-sunset overlay.
> Auto-mounting of external media like CDs does not work, I assume it's
> because I have no HAL support for kioslaves:
>
> leela ~ # USE=hal emerge -pv kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves:3.5
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.10-r1  USE="ldap samba -
> debug (-hal) -kdehiddenvisibility -openexr" 0 kB [1]
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> Portage tree and overlays:
> [0] /var/portage/tree
> [1] /var/portage/layman/kde-sunset
>
> The (-hal) probably means that this USE flag is disabled by profile. Is
> there a way to enable it? Or does one have to mount CDs manually with KDE
> 3.5 now?
>
> I tried to put -hal in package.use.mask, and hal in package.use.force
> (whatever thsi is). And in package.use of course, but this does not help.
> When I look into the ebuild, it seems that sys-apps/dbus has to be compiled
> with qt3, but there is no such USE flag for this package. Maybe that's why
> hal is masked in the first place.
>
> So, is there anything I can do about it?

Here's what I've had to do...

In /etc/portage/package.use.mask:

kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves -hal
app-cdr/k3b -hal

In /etc/portage/package.keywords (because newer masked ebuilds of these 
two packages solve some build issues):

kde-base/kdelibs:3.5 ~amd64
kde-base/kcontrol:3.5 ~amd64

In /etc/portage/package.unmask:

kde-base/kdelibs:3.5
kde-base/kcontrol:3.5

Hope this helps...

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