> 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
> 
> :-)  :-)
>