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2009/11/3 Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@×××.de> |
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> >>> # Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> (16 Oct 2009) |
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> >>> # Fails to build with KDE4 installed wrt bug #277427. |
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> >>> # Masked for removal in 30 days. |
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> >>> net-news/eventwatcher |
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> >>> kde-misc/kisdnwatch |
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> >> ... |
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> >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279823 |
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> >> |
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> >> Does kde team changed their plans to move kde3 together with all kde3 |
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> >> applications to dedicated overlay? If not, then why we just drop this |
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> >> applications? |
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> >> |
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> > |
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> > No, the plan hasn't changed. These won't build with _stable_ KDE4 |
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> > installed, and has no reverse deps. As such, they will be killed. Only |
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> > the functional KDE3 programs will be moved to overlay. |
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> Sorry, I cannot follow this argumentation. In the office I need Exchange |
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> integration and all I can hope is, that it is ready for KDE 4.5. Unless |
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> this time, I have to stick with KDE3. |
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> However, with you removing all those apps, you also remove quite some that I |
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> use and need also. If you do not move them to the KDE3 overlay, my KDE3 |
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> setup is quite similar useless as KDE4 and the KDE3 overlay is simply a |
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> farce. If I use KDE3 only, I do *not* have KDE4 on my machine i.e. those |
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> apps *will* build without problems. You would have better add some build |
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> dependency with <kdelibs-4 to effectively block those ebuilds when KDE4 is |
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> installed. |
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You should join the kde-sunset (aka kde3) overlay team and maintain those |
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packages, with the proper kde4 blocks, in that overlay. It expressly exists for |
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people who need legacy applications. |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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