Alistair Bush wrote:
>> Pacho Ramos wrote:
>>     
>>> El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 07:55 -0600, Dale escribió:
>>>       
>>>> I mention because I have already downloaded Mandriva and plan to install
>>>> it as a temporary fix if needed.  I think I can suffer through Mandriva
>>>> for a couple months while this gets sorted out.  I'm planning to install
>>>> the same for my brother.  I would like to install Gentoo but he's not as
>>>> geeky as me.
>>>>
>>>> < back to my hole again >
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>>> :-)  :-)
>>>>         
>>> Mandriva already dropped KDE3 in 2010 and cooker and it's not being
>>> supported in older versions, since it's in contrib (for 2009.1) and
>>> 2009.0 (and previous) support ended for desktops. Then, it's "the same
>>> situation" (or even worse since, *if I don't misremember*, there is no
>>> external repository still providing kde3)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>       
>> I have the 2009 version which still has KDE 3.5 available.  I think KDE
>> 4 is there to but I don't plan to install it anyway.
>>
>> It may not be as secure but at least it still works.  ;-)
>>     
>
> If you never sync'd you portage tree again then kde3.5 would continue to work 
> too. 
>   
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>     

I thought about that too.  Everything works right now so I could go a
little while without a update.  However, we all know what happens if you
go to long without updating Gentoo.  A couple things pop up that bite
you hard.  With my luck, there would be a dozen or so.  One that comes
to mind is expat.  It's not often but it can be fun when you have
several at a time.

Dale

:-)  :-)